Format:
Lit. S. 190-195
ISBN:
0822322021
Content:
Migrated workers and peasants who worked for foreign-owned mines in the production of Costa Rica's third export product, precious metals, are the objects of this study. The creation of new migrant communities in a marginal region, their goals, hopes and consciousness as well as dividing lines between them are analyzed. Special attention is given to the study of organized forms of social struggle like squatters' attempts to cultivate land surrounding the companies and workers' claims for better working conditions. Peasants and workers discovered weak points in the alliance between foreign companies and the state and managed to negotiate without challenging official ideologies. (DÜI-Huj)
In:
Identity and struggle at the margins of the nation-state, Durham [u.a.] : Duke University Press, 1998, , Seite 169-195, 0822322021
In:
0822322188
In:
pages:169-195
Language:
English
Author information:
Chomsky, Aviva 1957-
