Aviva Chomsky

Linked Labor Histories

New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class

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Produktbeschreibung

"The early-twentieth-century export of Draper looms from Hopedale, Massachusetts, to Medellin's domestic textile industry sets the stage for a remarkably creative transnational study, documenting the eerie connection between the fates of both American and Colombian working people. Aviva Chomsky jumps skillfully across time and space to link capital flight and the early globalization of the New England textile industry to patterns of low-wage international immigration, even as she dissects the role of the United States (at times aided by American trade unions) in the suppression of Colombian labor radicalism."--Leon Fink, author of "The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South "

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9780822341901
• ISBN-10: 0822341905
• Artikelnr.: 23370166

Autorenporträt

Aviva Chomsky

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Abbreviations ix
Introduction 1
Part I. New England
1. The Draper Company: From Hopedale to Medellín and Back 15
2. The Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company: Labor-Management Collaboration and
Its Discontents 48
3. Guns, Butter, and the New (Old) International Division of Labor 93
4. Invisible Workers in a Dying Industry: Latino Immigrants in New England
Textile Towns 142
Part II. Colombia
5. The Cutting Edge of Globalization: Neoliberalism and Violence in
Colombia's Banana Zone 181
6. Taking Care of Business in Colombia: U.S. Multinationals, the U.S.
Government, and the AFL-CIO 222
7. Mining the Connections: Where Does Your Coal Come From? 264
Conclusion 294
Notes 305
Bibliography 357
Index 373