Trabajadores: Su presencia en la historia de Chile, 1800-2019 / Workers: Their Presence in the History of Chile, 1800-2019

From the peasants and tenants of colonial Chile to the strikes and mobilizations that marked the social uprising of 2019, this book traces an exhaustive journey through more than two centuries of labor history in Chile, shaped both by the beginnings of modernization and the formation of the proletariat, as well as by the contemporary challenges arising from globalization and union fragmentation. Workers. Their presence in the history of Chile, 1800-2019 rescues, through rigorous analysis, not only the voices of the great trade union movements, but also those of women, peasants and marginalized workers that reveal the diversity of their experiences and struggles, all fundamental in the current economic, political and cultural configuration of the country.