The Barriers to Proletarianization

Bolivian Mine Labour, 1826–1918

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9391007
AutoresE D Langer (0000-0002-9739-942X, autor de correspondencia)
Año1996
Volumen41
NúmeroS4
Páginas27-51
Fecha de publicación1996-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Review of Social History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0020-8590 • E-ISSN: 1469-512X
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0020859000114269
OpenAlexW2051067242
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas28

Labour history in Latin America has, to a great degree, followed the models set by the rich historiography in Europe and North America. Other than a justifiable concern with the peculiarities in production for export of primary goods, much of the Latin American historiography suggests that the process of labour formation was rather similar to that of the North Atlantic economies, only lagging behind, as did industrialization in this region of the world. However, this was not the case. The export orientation of the mining industry and its peripheral location in the world economy introduced certain modifications not found in the North Atlantic economies. The vagaries of the mining industry, exacerbated by the severe swings in raw material prices, created conditions which hindered proletarianization and modified the consciousness of the mine workers

Economics · Economy · Heavy industry · Historiography · Industrialisation · Lagging · Latin Americans · Market economy · Political science · Politics · Proletarianization · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical Studies in Latin America · History and Politics in Latin America