NACLA Report on the Americas, Volume 51, Issue 3 (2019)

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Todxs Somos Trabajadorxs: Seeking Labor Justice in the 21st Century

Editor’s Note

Introduction
We are all Workers
Laura Weiss
Pages: 215-216
Published online: 25 Aug 2019
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Around the Region

Article
Silenced No More in Peru
After two decades battling impunity, Indigenous Peruvian women who survived Alberto Fujimori’s forced sterilization campaign finally have their say.
Jacquelyn Kovarik
Pages: 217-222
Published online: 25 Aug 2019
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Between Fear and Disillusion in Argentina
Ahead of October’s presidential elections, Kirchnerism pitches center, while current president Mauricio Macri embraces Peronists. The outcome—both political and economic—is impossible to predict.
Pablo Stefanoni
Pages: 223-226
Published online: 25 Aug 2019
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Seeking Liberation in Brazil
Though growing right-wing religious groups helped pave Jair Bolsonaro’s path to power, Brazil’s faith community has at other times driven progressive social and political change. Can Liberation Theology stage a comeback?
Travis Knoll
Pages: 227-231
Published online: 25 Aug 2019
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Celebrating Ethnic Studies at 50
Ethnic Studies emerged in 1969 as a demand for social justice in the Bay Area. Facing a global right turn and resurgence of white nationalism across the globe, its study today is more important than ever.
Xamuel Bañales
Pages: 232-235
Published online: 25 Aug 2019
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App Capitalism
The global explosion of apps like Uber, Glovo, Deliveroo, and Rappi has generated new ways of exploiting Latin American labor, as “collaborators” struggle to be considered workers.
Alejandra Dinegro Martínez
Pages: 236-241
Published online: 25 Aug 2019
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Cancún’s Uber Battle
When Uber began operating illegally in lucrative tourist destination Quintana Roo, taxi union workers unleashed a violent campaign that temporarily shut down the company’s operations. But the taxi union’s affiliation with criminal networks reveals complicated dynamics around the state of union organizing in Mexico.
Brandon Hunter-Pazzara
Pages: 242-249
Published online: 25 Aug 2019
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Rethinking Children’s Labor in Peru
Addressing children’s labor—and labor more broadly—requires focusing on both the monetary and emotional economies that shape children’s everyday lives, and ending the systemic exploitation of adults responsible for their care.
Leigh Campoamor
Pages: 250-255
Published online: 25 Aug 2019
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Women Reclaim the Commons: A Conversation with Silvia Federici
Feminist labor theorist Silvia Federici on the need to challenge capitalist economics and social relations through “commoning”—and how it informs current debates around women’s access to health and reproductive care.
Graciela Monteagudo
Pages: 256-261
Published online: 25 Aug 2019
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Domestic Service in a New Cuba
The realities of Cuban domestic workers—who labor outside of the state and earn far above government wages—reflect the challenges of a country in transition.
Anasa Hicks
Pages: 262-267
Published online: 25 Aug 2019
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In Mexico, a New Dawn for Independent Unions?
Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador has instituted the first phase of labor law reform in the country, but some unions don’t think it goes far enough. Workers themselves are starting to act on their own, demanding wage increases and more democracy in their unions.
David Bacon
Pages: 268-275
Published online: 25 Aug 2019
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The Sandinista Labor Paradox
In Nicaragua, workers face a dangerous contradiction—organize within the limits of the government’s corporatist development model, or be shut down.
Jonah Walters
Pages: 276-283
Published online: 25 Aug 2019
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When Dockworkers Strike Back
Despite a grim labor landscape, the recent port workers’ movement, which pitted informal laborers against the highest echelons of Chilean capital, highlights the continuing relevance of the tools of class struggle—from direct action to worker solidarity to community support.
Ben Maxwell
Pages: 284-290
Published online: 25 Aug 2019
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In Colombia, “Without Life, there are No Jobs”
While Colombia’s mining industry celebrates right-wing president Iván Duque’s policy goals, Colombia’s workers and peasants are bracing for a new round of attacks on their rights, and a new wave of violence to enforce the new order.
Aviva Chomsky
Pages: 291-295
Published online: 25 Aug 2019
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Venezuelan Migrant Workers Struggle for Labor Rights in Colombia
A new wave of Venezuelan migrants fleeing economic crisis and poverty are making their way to neighboring Colombia, where they face abuse, exploitation, and a lack of options in informal work settings.
Phineas Rueckert
Pages: 296-300
Published online: 25 Aug 2019
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Commemorating May Day in Puerto Rico
New Puerto Rican movements and organizations—comprised largely of queer feminists, non-unionized workers, and students—are using May Day to imagine potential futures and alternatives to colonialism and capitalism.
Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo
Pages: 301-305
Published online: 25 Aug 2019
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Arts and Reviews

Review
Review of The Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil
University of Minnesota Press, 2018
Geísa Mattos
Pages: 306-307
Published online: 25 Aug 2019
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Review of Seeking Rights from the Left: Gender, Sexuality, and the Latin American Pink Tide
(Duke University Press, 2018)
Michelle Chase
Pages: 308-309
Published online: 25 Aug 2019
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Review of Diego Enrique Osorno’s 1994
Leo Schwartz
Pages: 310-312
Published online: 25 Aug 2019
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