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Revista Latinoamericana de Trabajo y Trabajadores is a scholarly publication devoted to the history of labour, which aims to bring together research with diverse views and perspectives about and from Latin America. It draws upon a conceptualization of labour history in the long term (16th to 21st centuries), thus overcoming several dichotomies (such as the division between the studies of the ‘classic’ industrial and waged workers and those dedicated to slavery and other forms of coactive work) and exploring a variety of socio-economic systems, as well as the diverse non-evolutionary continuum of coactive labour and labour regimes that bring together informal and popular activities. Moreover, it explores labour precariousness from a perspective that recognizes that it is not only a contemporary phenomenon, but rather one with a long history. Last, but not least, the journal assesses protests and conflicts over time, including forms of struggle that precede the formation of trade unions and labour organizations. It is in these geographic and temporal dimensions that the journal finds its originality, since it proposes to think of the Latin American world of labour as a complex mosaic that crosses borders and regions throughout six centuries.

The journal is published twice a year, and its articles are submitted to external reviewers with the double-blind peer review system.  It is an initiative of the Red Latinoamericana de Trabajo y Trabajadores (REDLATT), with the support of the International Institute of Social History (the Netherlands) and the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (Germany). It publishes articles in Spanish, Portuguese, and English.

The journal is available in open access here: https://revista.redlatt.org/index.php/revlatt/index

CURRENT ISSUE

No. 1: November 2020 – April 2021

PUBLISHED: 2020-11-01

Articles

• Mulheres escravas e forras na mineração no Brasil, século XVIII

  Junia Ferreira Furtado
  1-49
   

• El motín del Asilo de Huérfanos. Reflexiones en torno a los sentidos y usos del trabajo. Ciudad de Buenos Aires, 1902

  María Marta Aversa
  51-77
   

• El camino hacia la conquista de las ocho horas de trabajo en Perú y Bolivia, 1905-1930

  Ivanna Margarucci
  79-112
   

• Gênero e classe numa comunidade de mineração de carvão do Brasil em meados do século XX

  Clarice Gontarski Speranza
  113-136
   

• A Farda e o Fardo: Memórias sobre o mundo do trabalho na construção da Usina Hidrelétrica Binacional de Itaipu (1975-1991)

  Eduardo Gonçalves Ueda, Endrica Geraldo
  137-163
   

• Workers Who Produce Industrial Fabrics and Cultivate the Land: Textile Labor, Migrations and Connections between Rural and Factory Work

  Juçara da Silva Barbosa de Mello, Felipe Augusto dos Santos Ribeiro
  165-191
   

Debates and Interventions

• Historias del trabajo y de la prostitución en América Latina: diálogos posibles

  Cristiana Schettini, Paulo Drinot, Ana Carolina Gálvez Comandini, Patricio Simonetto, Beatriz Kushnir
  193-221
   

• Workers Who Benefit from the Exploitation of Other Workers

  Marcel van der Linden
  223-239
   

• Comments on “Workers Who Benefit from the Exploitation of Other Workers”

  Ricardo Antunes, Rohini Hensman
  241-246
   

• Interview with Karin Hofmeester, First Woman as Director of the Research Department at the IISH

  Rossana Barragán
  247-251
   

Book Reviews

• Branko Milanovic y la desigualdad económica en perspectiva histórica: un diálogo posible con la historia del trabajo

  Lucas Poy
  253-266
   

• Rossana Barragán Romano (coordinación y compilación), Amaru Villanueva Rance y Cristina Machicado Murillo (organizadores). Trabajos y trabajadores en América Latina (siglos XVI-XXI) (La Paz: Vicepresidencia del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia, 2019), 578

  Camilo Santibáñez Rebolledo
  267-271
   

• Jan Breman, Kevan Harris, Ching Kwan Lee, Marcel van der Linden (eds.), The Social Question in the Twenty-First Century: A Global View. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019, 266 pp.

  Mirta Zaida Lobato
  273-276
   

• Juan Marchena, Manuel Chust, Mariano Schlez, El debate permanente. Modos de producción y revolución en América Latina. Santiago de Chile: Ariadna, 2020, 576 pp.

  David Mayer
  277-281
   

• Fernando Teixeira da Silva, Workers before the Tribunal Conflicts and the Labor Courts in the Context of the 1964 Coup in Brazil. Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2019, 291 pp.

  Victoria Basualdo
  283-286