Copper Workers, International Business, and Domestic Politics in Cold War Chile

Contents

Illustrations and Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. From Montana to Potrerillos

2. The World of Labor

3. Copper, Labor, and Political Repression, 1945–1952

4. Making a New Deal: Copper Laws, Modernization, and Workers’ Rights, 1955–1958

5. Nationalism and Radicalization, 1958–1970

6. Experiencing Nationalization and Socialism, 1970–1973

Epilogue: Repression, Economic Transformations, and the Struggle for Democracy, 1973–1990s

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

“Vergara effectively weaves together the plentiful supply of existing scholarship on the Anaconda workers and mixes it with new data of her own, especially concerning corporate efforts to modernize both mines and towns in the post-war era and developments during the period of socialization in the early 1970s.”

—Thomas O’Brien, Enterprise and Society