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Record Nr.

UNINA9910476842103321

Autore

Gill Lesley

Titolo

A century of violence in a red city : popular struggle, counterinsurgency, and human rights in Colombia / / Lesley Gill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2016

ISBN

0-8223-7470-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 p.)

Disciplina

986.1/25

Soggetti

Human rights - Colombia - History - 20th century

Working class - Colombia - History - 20th century

Labor disputes - Colombia - Barrancabermeja - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Black gold, militant labor -- Cold war crucible -- Terror and impunity -- Unraveling -- Fragmented sovereignty -- Narrowing political options and human rights -- The aftermath of counterinsurgency.

Sommario/riassunto

Lesley Gill traces the rise and fall of the strong labor unions and working class of Barrancabermeja, Colombia, showing how the incursion of neoliberalism, the drug trade, and counterinsurgency military campaigns into civil society that began in the 1980s has destabilized everyday life and decimated the city's powerful social institutions.