An attempt to gauge the impact of Chile's neoliberal reform policies and of the Chilean "economic miracle" on various groups of workers.

Index 411
Foreword / Paul W. Drake ix
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction / Peter Winn 1
The Pinochet Era / Peter Winn 14
Politics without Policy: The Failure of Social Concentration in Democratic Chile, 1990-2000 / Volker Frank 71
“No Miracle for Us”: The Textile Industry in the Pinochet Era, 1973–1998 / Peter Winn 125
Disciplined Works and Avid Consumers: Neoliberal Policy and the Transformation of Work and Identity Among Chilean Metalworkers / Joel Stillerman 164
Class, Community, and Neoliberalism in Chile: Copper Workers and the Labor Movement During the Military Dictatorship and the Restoration of Democracy / Thomas Miller Klubock 209
More Than Victims: Women Agricultural Workers and Social Change in Rural Chile / Heidi Tinsman 261
Shuckers, Sorters, Headers, and Gutters: Labor in the Fisheries Sector / Rachel Schurman 298
Labor, Land, and Environmental Change in the Forestry Sector in Chile, 1973–1998 / Thomas Miller Klubock 337
Bibliography 389
Contributors 409

Peter Winn is Professor of History at Tufts University. His books include Americas: The Changing Face of Latin America and the Caribbean and Weavers of Revolution: The Yarur Workers and Chile’s Road to Socialism.