The Labor of Extraction in Latin America

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 an associate 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.

Table of Contents



PART ONE – THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

Chapter One – Introduction: The Labor of Extraction in Latin America

Kristin Ciupa and Jeffery R. Webber

PART TWO – REVISITING THE CLASSICAL CASES

Chapter Two – The Political Economy of the Labor Movement in Contemporary Argentina

Ruth Felder and Viviana Patroni

Chapter Three – Oil and the Dualization of Venezuela’s Labor Movement

Kristin Ciupa

Chapter Four – A Labor History of Extractivism in Colombia: From Coffee to Coca and Beyond

Phillip A. Hough

Chapter Five – Reading Peru from Chile: Examining Mining Unionism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Omar Manky

Chapter Six – Capital Accumulation and the Forms and Potentialities of the Labor Movement in Latin America: Critical Reflections on Argentina and Chile

Guido Starosta and Fernando Javier Cazón

PART THREE – EXTENDING THE FRAMEWORK

Chapter Seven – Labor/Nature in (Late) Capitalist Mexico

Aleida Hernández Cervantes and Anna Zalik

Chapter Eight – From Sindicalismo to Cooperativismo: The Atomization of the Bolivian Miners’ Movement

Andrea Marston

Chapter Nine – Migrant Labor as Extraction

Christopher Little

PART FOUR – CONCLUSION

Chapter Ten – Conclusion and New Directions

Jeffery R. Webber