The Labour Movement in Latin America: A Review Essay

The article reviews and comments on "Outcasts in Their Own Land: Mexican Industrial Workers, 1906-1911," by Rodney D. Anderson, "Chilean Rural Society from the Spanish Conquest to 1930," by Arnold J. Bauer, "Land and Labour in Latin America: Essays on the Development of Agrarian Capitalism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries," edited by Kenneth Duncan and Ian Rutledge, with the collaboration of Colin Harding, "The Brazilian Corporative State and Working-Class Politics," by Kenneth Paul Erickson, "Anarchism and the Mexican Working Class, 1860-1931," by John M. Hart, "A History of the Bolivian Labour Movement 1848-1971," by Guillermo Lora, edited and abridged by Laurence Whitehead, "Labor and the Ambivalent Revolutionaries: Mexico, 1911-1923, by Ramon Eduardo Ruiz, "Struggle in the Countryside: Politics and Rural Labor in Chile, 1919-1973," by Brian Loveman, " Organized Labor in Latin America: Historical Case Studies of Workers in Dependent Societies," by Hobart A. Spalding, Jr.