[PDF.49ie] I Sweat the Flavor of Tin: Labor Activism in Early Twentieth-Century Bolivia (Pitt Latin American Series)

On June 4, 1923, the Bolivian military turned a machine gun on striking miners in the northern Potosí town of Uncía.  The incident is remembered as Bolivia’s first massacre of industrial workers.  The violence in Uncía highlights a formative period in the development of a working class who would eventually challenge the oligarchic control of the nation.

Robert L. Smale begins his study as Bolivia’s mining indus...

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