This analysis of the dramatic seizure of the Yarur cotton mill in Santiago and its repercussions for Allende's revolution is based on extensive, unique interviews with officials (including Allende) and workers as well as on archival research.

Stunning in its sweep, Americas is the most authoritative history available of contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean. From Mexico to Tierra del Fuego, and from Cuba to Trinidad and Tobago, Americas examines the historical, demographic, political, social, cultural, religious, and economic trends in the region. For this new edition Peter Winn has provided a new preface and made revisions throughout to include the most up-to-date information on changes and developments in Latin America since the last revised edition of 1999.

Chile was the first major Latin American nation to carry out a complete neoliberal transformation. Its policies encouraging foreign investment, privatizing public sector companies and services, lowering trade barriers, reducing the size of the state, and embracing the market as a regulator of both the economy and society produced an economic boom that some have hailed as a miracle to be emulated by other Latin American countries. But how have Chile s millions of workers, whose hard labor and long hours have made the miracle possible, fared under this program? Through empirically grounded...

Chile was the first major Latin American nation to carry out a complete neoliberal transformation. Its policies encouraging foreign investment, privatizing public sector companies and services, lowering trade barriers, reducing the size of the state, and embracing the market as a regulator of both the economy and society produced an economic boom that some have hailed as a miracle to be emulated by other Latin American countries. But how have Chile s millions of workers, whose hard labor and long hours have made the miracle possible, fared under this program? Through empirically grounded...