Scaling the commanding heights of the economy?: a century of mineworkers’ spatial projects in the Peruvian Andes

Omar Manky

Chapter 8 in Handbook of Labour Geography, 2025, pp 163-175 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter analyses and compares three moments in the construction of the Peruvian mining workers’ movement. Through the analysis of specific acts of protest, I explore the tensions that emerged in the articulation of a national labour identity between the 1920s and the early twenty-first century. Inspired by Labour Geography, I analyse workers’ advances, failures, and challenges faced in building a common base of claims and identities and show how the production of new geographical scales of organising is a political project.

Keywords: Labour unions; Latin America; Mining; Peru; Strikes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781785363399
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