Boricua Power: A Political History of Puerto Ricans in the United StatesNYU Press, 01/03/2007 - 278 من الصفحات Where does power come from? Why does it sometimes disappear? How do groups, like the Puerto Rican community, become impoverished, lose social influence, and become marginal to the rest of society? How do they turn things around, increase their wealth, and become better able to successfully influence and defend themselves? |
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... workers who went on strike in 1919 and brought the tobacco industry in New York City to a halt. They found themselves out of work a few short years later, however, when cigar manufacturers switched to machines and reduced their ...
... Workers are no less active as subjects because we give more attention to what is consumed than what is produced in advanced capitalist nations. The fact is that workers have not ceased needing to work to live. Apart from that, consumers ...
... workers are one and the same is only to say that capital and wage labour are two sides of one and the same relation- ship . The one determines the other , as usurer and squanderer reciprocally condition the existence of each other ...
... workers, consumers, professionals, merchants, etc.), politically (as voters, activists, campaign contributors, elected officials, etc.) or culturally (as musicians, dancers, artists, Spanish speakers, writers, cooks, etc.). These group ...
... workers. The year 1917 was not the first time that U.S. government officials at- tempted to cast the people of Puerto Rico as cheap labor. Almost immedi- ately after acquiring Puerto Rico from Spain in 1898, the United States began to ...
المحتوى
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The Rise of Radicalism World War II to | 96 |
Puerto Rican Marginalization | 129 |
The Young Lords the Media and Cultural Estrangement | 171 |
Conclusion | 210 |
Notes | 253 |
Bibliography | 265 |
Index | 275 |