We eat the mines and the mines eat us : dependency and exploitation in Bolivian tin mines

Author(s)

• Nash, June C.

Bibliographic Information

We eat the mines and the mines eat us : dependency and exploitation in Bolivian tin mines

June Nash ; with a new preface by the author

Columbia University Press, c1993

• : pbk

Note

Originally published: 1979

Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-349) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This account of life in the Bolivian tin mines has been revised to include a new preface by the author that brings the text up to date. It addresses new issues in anthropology and recounts the author's findings during her most recent visit to Bolivia.

Table of Contents

• The Miners' History
• Belief and Behaviour in Family Life
• Community Integration and Worker Solidarity
• The Natural and the Supernatural Order
• Conditions of Work in the Mine
• Wages, Prices, and the Accumulation of Capital in Mining
• Labour Conflict and Unionization
• Community and Class Consciousness.

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Details

• NCID: BA37029910
• ISBN:
  • 0231080506
  • 9780231080514
• LCCN: 92035964
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xxxix, 363 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HD8039.M72
  • DC20 : 331.7/6223453/0984
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Tin miners -- Bolivia
  • LCSH : Tin mines and mining -- Bolivia
  • LCSH : Trade-unions -- Tin miners -- Bolivia
  • LCSH : Bolivia -- Social life and customs