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- Fighting Unemployment in Twentieth-Century Chile
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- 2021
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: Pitt Latin American Series
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In Fighting Unemployment in Twentieth-Century Chile, Ángela Vergara narrates the story of how industrial and mine workers, peasants and day laborers, as well as blue-collar and white-collar employees earned a living through periods of economic, political, and social instability in twentieth-century Chile. The Great Depression transformed how Chileans viewed work and welfare rights and how they related to public institutions. Influenced by global and regional debates, the state put modern agencies in place to count and assist the poor and expand their social and economic rights. Weaving together bottom-up and transnational approaches, Vergara underscores the limits of these policies and demonstrates how the benefits and protections of wage labor became central to people’s lives and culture, and how global economic recessions, political oppression, and abusive employers threatened their working-class culture. Fighting Unemployment in Twentieth-Century Chile contributes to understanding the profound inequality that permeates Chilean history through a detailed analysis of the relationship between welfare professionals and the unemployed, the interpretation of labor laws, and employers’ everyday attitudes.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-4
- Introduction
- pp. 5-20
- Part One. Discovering Unemployment (1900s-1920s)
- 1. The Global Debate on Unemployment
- pp. 23-36
- Part Two. Experiencing Massive Unemployment (1930-1938)
- 3. Fighting Unemployment
- pp. 53-74
- 5. Protecting Consumers
- pp. 96-114
- Part Three. The Road to Full Employment
- 6. Incomplete Reforms
- pp. 117-136
- Bibliography
- pp. 215-236
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822988311
Related ISBN(s)
9780822946793
MARC Record
OCLC
1247726448
Pages
255
Launched on MUSE
2021-04-28
Language
English
Open Access
No