Contested Communities Class, Gender, and Politics in Chile's El Teniente Copper Mine, 1904 1951

Thomas Miller Klubock/ Thomas Miller Klubock

ISBN 10: 0822320924 / ISBN 13: 9780822320920

Published by Duke Univ Pr, 1998

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363 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Contested Communities Class, Gender, and Politics in Chile's El Teniente Copper Mine, 1904 1951
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822320924
• ISBN 13: 9780822320920
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.67 kilograms

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Synopsis

In Contested Communities Thomas Miller Klubock analyzes the experiences of the El Teniente copper miners during the first fifty years of the twentieth century. Describing the everyday life and culture of the mining community, its impact on Chilean politics and national events, and the sense of self and identity working-class men and women developed in the foreign-owned enclave, Klubock provides important insights into the cultural and social history of Chile.
Klubock shows how a militant working-class community was established through the interplay between capitalist development, state formation, and the ideologies of gender. In describing how the North American copper company attempted to reconfigure and reform the work and social-cultural lives of men and women who migrated to the mine, Klubock demonstrates how struggles between labor and capital took place on a gendered field of power and reconstituted social constructions of masculinity and femininity. As a result, Contested Communities describes more accurately than any previous study the nature of grassroots labor militancy, working-class culture, and everyday politics of gender relations during crucial years of the Chilean Popular Front in the 1930s and 1940s.

About the Author

Thomas Miller Klubock is Associate Professor of History, SUNY Stony Brook.