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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1992Description: 1 online resource (416 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231915106
  • 9780231884082
Subject(s): Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
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.

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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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