Working-class masculinity, middle-class morality, and labor politics in the Chilean copper mines.

From: Journal of Social History | Date: December 22, 1996| Author: Klubock, Thomas Miller | Copyright information

This article examines the reconstruction of working-class masculinity in early twentieth-century Chile through the transformation of a population of itinerant rural laborers into a permanent and trained labor force. After the 1920s, the Chilean state and the copper industry colluded to reorganize forms of working-class sociability and gender relations in order to establish a disciplined labor force for Chile's emergent industrial economy. Copper miners elaborated a complex and contradictory s...

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