Bread or Bullets!: Urban Labor and Spanish Colonialism in Cuba, 1850-98 (Pitt Latin American Series) (Pitt Latin American)

by Joan Casanovas

0 ratings • 0 reviews • 0 shelved
Book cover for Bread or Bullets!

Bookhype may earn a small commission from qualifying purchases. Full disclosure.

Bread, or Bullets! is the first thoroughly documented history of organized labor in nineteenth-century Cuba. Based on research in libraries and archives in Cuba, Spain, the United States, and the Netherlands, it focuses on how urban laborers joined together in collective action during the transition from slave to free labor and in the last decades of Spanish colonial rule in Cuba.

Nineteenth-century Cuban colonial society and the slavery system sharply divided Cuba's inhabitants by race and origin. This deeply affected the labor movement that started in the late 1850s, as it became difficult to mobilize workers with common interests across...

Read more
  • ISBN13 9780822940708
  • Publish Date 1 December 1998 (first published 1 January 1998)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 340
  • Language English