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Kristin Ciupa, Jeffery R. Webber - Labor of Extraction in Latin America, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

Labor of Extraction in Latin America

Av Kristin Ciupa, Jeffery R. Webber

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Natural resource extraction and primary commodity export remain persistent features of the Latin American economy. This edited volume traces the power of labor in extractive sectors in Latin America starting in the 1980s and shows how labor shapes national export sectors, economies, politics, and societies more broadly.Kristin Ciupa and Jeffery R. Webber bring together a team of international experts who look at labor in several extractive sectors—including oil and gas, mining and agriculture, and migrant labor. They present a variety of viewpoints and case studies, exploring themes of the strategic organizing potential of extractive workers, the rise of informal labor and its impact on organizing and worker solidarity, and migrant labor-power as extraction. The book analyzes relationships between workers, extractive companies, states, political parties, national social sectors, and global commodity markets. The Labor of Extraction in Latin America puts the question of labor organizing to the forefront of discussions on Latin America’s ongoing history of extractive capitalism, its effects on nature, and resistance against it.Contributions by: Fernando Cazón, Kristin Ciupa, Aleida Hernández Cervantes, Phillip A. Hough, Christopher Little, Omar Manky, Andrea Marston, Viviana Patroni, Guido Starosta, Jeffery R. Webber, Anna Zalik
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Kristin Ciupa is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Regina. She is the author of The Political Economy of Oil in Venezuela: Class Conflict, the State, and the World Market. Jeffery R. Webber is a professor of politics at York University, Toronto. He is the author or co-author of five books, and co-editor of two books. Most recently, he is co-author of The Impasse of the Latin American Left.

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This edited collection contextualizes the current production of extractive labor in Latin America due to the political, historical, social, and economic effects of neoliberal policies and geopolitics. According to the editors, “The main objective of this edited collection is to inaugurate a research agenda aimed at filling an enormous gap concerning the question of labor in the extant literature on extractivism in Latin America” (p. 4). The editors organized this collection into five critical sections, bringing together 11 scholars. The writers challenge capitalist and neoliberal scholarship on the political status of 21st-century labor production in Latin America. Each chapter provides a strong, in-depth review and analysis, including theoretical frameworks that are critical for understanding extraction in modern Latin American labor production. This critical book will result in major contributions to future scholarship on this important subject. Every library should obtain a copy for their Latin American and labor collections. Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty.

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