We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us: Dependency and Exploitation in Bolivian Tin Mines by June Nash
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We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us
We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us
Summary
In this powerful anthropological study of a Bolivian tin mining town, Nash explores the influence of modern industrialization on the traditional culture of Quechua-and-Aymara-speaking Indians.
We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us Summary
We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us Reviews
More than an anthropological account of indigenous miners in far off Bolivia, the book is a serious rendering of the contemporary social, economic, and political reality at the industrial world periphery. Technology and Culture
About June Nash
June Nash is the author of I Spent My Life in the Mines.
Table of Contents
The Miners' History; Belief and Behaviour in Family Life; Community Integration and Worker Solidarity; The Natural and the Supernatural Order; Conditions of Work in the Mine; Wages, Prices, and the Accumulation of Capital in Mining; Labour Conflict and Unionization; Community and Class Consciousness.
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GOR005793404
9780231080514
0231080514
We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us: Dependency and Exploitation in Bolivian Tin Mines by June Nash
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Columbia University Press
19930401
406
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