Workers from the North: Plantations, Bolivian Labor, and the City in Northwest Argentina

by Scott Whiteford

Book Overview

International migration between countries in Latin America became increasingly important during the twentieth century, but for a long time it was the subject of only limited research. Scott Whiteford sets the Argentina-Bolivia experience in historical perspective by examining the macrolevel factors that influenced social change in both countries and brought streams of migration into Argentina. Seasonal labor, the expansion of capitalist agriculture,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477307036
• ISBN13: 9781477307038
• Release Date: September 1981
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"