I Spent My Life in the Mines : The Story of Juan Rojas, Bolivian Tin Miner / June Nash.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nash, June, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1992]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A collection of personal testimonies of tin miners in Bolivia gathered as a means of analyzing the development of consciousness among workers as well as the unconscious values that motivated their actions.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

PART ONE. 1926-70

1. Introduction: Revolutionary Parallels in a Life History

2. From the Countryside to the Mine

3. Entry into the Mines

4. My Military Service

5. Working in the Mines

6. Homework

7. Petrona's Account of Their Wedding

8. Married Life in the Mining Camp

9. The Triumph of the Revolution: The Workers Are Lords of the National Wealth

10. We Miners Lived Like Rats in the Mining Camp

11. Luck in the Mines

12. Union Struggles

13. After the Fall

14. I Bury Myself Alive Every Day

15. My Lungs Are Exhausted

16. You Can Die Working

17. How the Poor Get Buried

PART TWO. Fifteen Years Later

18. The Rich Are Richer and the Poor Are Poorer

19. Petrona

20. Juan

21. Juan Manuel

22. Elena

23. Epilogue

REFERENCES CITED

GLOSSARY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-88408-7

OCLC:

1100453533