Bread or bullets! : urban labor and Spanish colonialism in Cuba, 1850-1898 / Joan Casanovas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Casanovas, Joan, author.

Contributor:

Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress)

Casanovas, Joan, inscriber.

Series:

Pitt Latin American series.

Pitt Latin American Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor movement--Cuba--History--19th century.

Labor movement.

Slavery--Cuba--History--19th century.

Slavery.

Social classes--Cuba--History--19th century.

Social classes.

Working class--Cuba--History--19th century.

Working class.

Anarchism--Cuba--History--19th century.

Anarchism.

Spain--Colonies--America--Administration.

Spain.

Genre:

History

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The first thoroughly documented history of organized labor in nineteenth-century Cuba, this work 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.

Contents:

Maps, figures, and tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Urban space and labor

The heyday of colonialism and the first artisans' associations

The labor movement of the 1860s and Spain's search for a new colonial policy

The ten years' war

The rebuilding of the Cuban labor movement

From reformism to anarchism

Postemancipation party politics

The turning point of the labor movement

Conclusion and epilogue

Notes

Glossary

References

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822971948

0822971941

9780585043906

0585043906

OCLC:

891385829