Weavers of Revolution: The Yarur Workers and Chile's Road to Socialism - Tapa blanda

"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 revolution...Provided 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 larger context of its time and place....Written in a lively and often eloquent style...reads more like a novel than a scholarly work."--Hobart Spalding, The Americas "A richly textured...magnificent 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 telling...one 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 "A major contribution...a gracefully written treatment of a subject of international interest....Rather than furnishing more polemics or speculation about the behavior of the Chilean proletariat, he lays bare the complexities and contradictions of working-class maturation, politicization, divisions, doubts and hopes...an elegant, pathbreaking volume."--Paul Drake, University of California at San Diego "A landmark book both for labor studies and for Latin American history as a whole....Integrating the story of the Yarur workers into the larger national history of which they formed a part, and focusing carefully on the reciprocal interactions between events at the national level and at the Yarur plant, Winn provides us with a brilliant example, written in vivid and gripping prose, of how 'to fuse history from above with history from below'."--Reid Andrews, Journal of Social History

Peter Winn, a highly regarded and internationally recognized Latin-American scholar and journalist, has written an innovative case study of Chile's revolution from below. Winn's analysis of the dramatic seizure of the Yarur cotton mill in Santiago and its widely felt repercussions for Allende's revolution is based on extensive, unique interviews. He juxtaposes the workers' views and activities during the revolution with a portrait of the government.