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Author Bruey, Alison J., author.

Title Bread, justice, and liberty : grassroots activism and human rights in Pinochet's Chile / Alison J. Bruey
Published Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (xx, 298 pages) : 5 maps
Series Critical human rights
Critical human rights.
Contents Introduction: Defying Dictatorship, Reclaiming Freedom -- 1. La Legua, Villa Francia, and the Movimiento de Pobladores -- 2. The Coup and the Past That Is Present -- 3. The Economy of Terror, 1973-1978 -- 4. Solidarity and Resistance, 1973-1978 -- 5. Miracles, Mirages, and Mobilization, 1978-1982 -- 6. National Protest and Possibility, 1983-1990 -- Epilogue: And the Joy?
Summary In Santiago's urban shantytowns, a searing history of poverty and Chilean state violence have prompted grassroots resistance movements among the poor and working class from the 1940s to the present. Underscoring this complex continuity, Alison J. Bruey offers a compelling history of the struggle for social justice and democracy during the Pinochet dictatorship and its aftermath. As Bruey shows, crucial to the popular movement built in the 1970s were the activism of both men and women and the coalition forged by liberation-theology Catholics and Marxist-Left militants. These alliances made possible the mass protests of the 1980s that paved the way for Chile's return to democracy, but the changes fell short of many activists' hopes. Their grassroots demands for human rights encompassed not just an end to state terror but an embrace of economic opportunity and participatory democracy for all. Deeply grounded by both extensive oral history interviews and archival research, Bread, Justice, and Liberty offers innovative contributions to scholarship on Chilean history, social movements, popular protest and democratization, neoliberal economics, and the Cold War in Latin America
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-271) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto.
SUBJECT Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto fast
Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto 1915-2006 gnd
Subject Protest movements -- Chile -- Santiago
Political activists -- Chile -- Santiago
Human rights workers -- Chile -- Santiago
Government, Resistance to -- Chile -- Santiago
Poor -- Chile -- Santiago
HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
Government, Resistance to
Human rights workers
Political activists
Poor
Protest movements
Diktatur
Menschenrechtsverletzung
Protestbewegung
Widerstand
SUBJECT Chile -- History -- 1973-1988. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91001497
Subject Chile
Chile -- Santiago
Chile
Chile.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780299316136
0299316130