We eat the mines and the mines eat us : dependency and exploitation in Bolivian tin mines
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Bibliographic Information
We eat the mines and the mines eat us : dependency and exploitation in Bolivian tin mines
Columbia University Press, c1993
- : pbk
Available at 4 libraries
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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