Contested Communities

Reviews / Votes

"Klubock uses the lens of gender to cast some of the most self-consciously masculine workers in Latin America-the copper miners of Chile's El Teniente-in a new light. If Klubock's account is cutting edge in its gender analysis, his combining of gender with class analysis and his application of both to the labor history of a masculine Latin American workforce is pathbreaking. . . . Klubock tells this complex story with narrative skill and analytic clarity." - Peter Winn, American Historical Review "Thomas Klubock has penned a splendid description and analysis of working-class life in a mining camp run by North American capitalists. Diligently researched and deftly written, Constested Communities focuses on the grassroots. . . . This book will satisfy traditional labor historians with its analysis of the workforce, working conditions, union affairs, and political activism. It will also please more voguish social and cultural historians with its exceptional attention to daily lives, to values and attitudes, and to the neglected roles of women. It will be hailed by both groups of scholars as a sophisticated portrait of the interactions between global capitalist structures and local social forces." - Paul W. Drake, Labor History "[A] lucid and persuasive history drawn from local archives, company records, personal interviews, and informed readings of a wide array of substantive and theoretical literature." - A. J. Bauer, Journal of Interdisciplinary History "Tracing the history of El Teniente is useful, and the author has based his work upon a rich number of sources. . . . [T]his work reveals an aspect of life that is little known." - William F. Sater, The Historian "[S]ophisticated, well-researched, and methodologically innovative . . . ." - Joel Wolfe, Latin American Research Review "Combining the explanatory power of theory with rich, evocative narrative, Klubock sets a new standard for the treatment of gender relations and politics in Latin American labor history."-Gil Joseph, Yale University "Revealing a defining moment of modern Chilean history, Contested Communities is a crucially important work. First-rate, fascinating labor history . . . remarkable for its boldness and originality."-Jeffrey L. Gould, Indiana University "[A] lucid and persuasive history drawn from local archives, company records, personal interviews, and informed readings of a wide array of substantive and theoretical literature." - A. J. Bauer (Journal of Interdisciplinary History) "Klubock uses the lens of gender to cast some of the most self-consciously masculine workers in Latin America-the copper miners of Chile's El Teniente-in a new light. If Klubock's account is cutting edge in its gender analysis, his combining of gender with class analysis and his application of both to the labor history of a masculine Latin American workforce is pathbreaking. . . . Klubock tells this complex story with narrative skill and analytic clarity." - Peter Winn (American Historical Review) "Thomas Klubock has penned a splendid description and analysis of working-class life in a mining camp run by North American capitalists. Diligently researched and deftly written, Constested Communities focuses on the grassroots. . . . This book will satisfy traditional labor historians with its analysis of the workforce, working conditions, union affairs, and political activism. It will also please more voguish social and cultural historians with its exceptional attention to daily lives, to values and attitudes, and to the neglected roles of women. It will be hailed by both groups of scholars as a sophisticated portrait of the interactions between global capitalist structures and local social forces." - Paul W. Drake (Labor History) "Tracing the history of El Teniente is useful, and the author has based his work upon a rich number of sources. . . . [T]his work reveals an aspect of life that is little known." - William F. Sater (The Historian) "[S]ophisticated, well-researched, and methodologically innovative . . . ." - Joel Wolfe (Latin American Research Review)