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Weavers of Revolution: The Yarur Workers and Chile's Road to Socialism
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by Peter Winn
Sales Rank: 140308
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Cover Type: Paperback with 354 pages
Published by: Oxford University Press, USA January 19, 1989
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0195045580
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0195045581
Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
Weighs: 12 ounces
Product Review
"Excellent book."--Gregory Crider, Drake University
"The most useful of all my assigned supplementary texts. Students enjoyed reading it and felt they gained real insights into the causes of revolutionProvided a sustained and enthusiastic discussion."--Bill Donovan, Loyola College in Maryland
"Well-written and accessible for a general audience."--Latin American Research Review
"Provides valuable insights into one of the central dynamics of the short-lived Popular Unity government of Chile.No other work concretely takes us to the factory floor to examine the internal tensions of this revolutionary process."--Science and Society
"[A] terrific book. Students loved it and learned a lot from it."--Jeffrey Rubin, Amherst College
"A landmark in Latin American history and a leading example of the new social history in practice.Winn has combined the finest elements of historical work, a dramatic, human, and moving story recounted in the language of the main actors of the drama and woven into the greater context of its time and place.Written in a lively and often eloquent stylereads more like a novel than a scholarly work."--Hobart Spalding, The Americas
"A richly texturedawesome and much needed account of the most human and democratic phase of the Chilean road to socialism."--James Petras, The Nation
"A marvelously good book; one of the best published on Latin America in the past few years."--Arnold Bauer, University of California at Davis
"Rich, vivid and fine in the tellingone of the outstanding historical studies to appear in the great wave of new scholarship on Latin America in the last twenty years."--John Womack, Harvard University
"A long-needed and well-written corrective to the simplistic views that have shaped too much of our understanding of the pivotal years in the U.S.-Latin America relationship."--Walter LaFeber, Cornell University
Product Description
In this compelling narrative history, Peter Winn tells the story of the Chilean revolution as it was seen through the eyes of the participants. Winn focuses on workers at the Yarur plant, Chile's largest cotton mill, who seized control of their factory and began to socialize its operations. Allende's plans were less radical than their own and the workers found themselves on a collision course with the government. Winn, who interviewed both the workers and Allende while many of these events were taking place, captures the turning point in Chile's "democratic road to socialism"--in both the presidential palace and the Yarur mill. He demonstrates how the revolution was "forged from below" and explains political complexities that arose from the workers' confrontation with Allende, complexities that have both eluded American understanding and frustrated U.S. foreign policy. Integrating oral history and penetrating analysis, the book offers a striking new explanation of how revolutions are radicalized. A major reinterpretation of the Allende era in Chile, this book is also a human drama that exemplifies "the new narrative history" at its best.
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