Bread or Bullets: Urban Labor and Spanish Colonialism in Cuba, 1850-1898

by Joan Casanovas

Bread or Bullets is the first thoroughly documented history of organized labor in nineteenth-century Cuba. Based on research in libraries and archives in Cuba, Spain, the United States, and the Netherlands, it focuses on how urban laborers joined together in collective action during the transition from slave to free labor and in the last decades of Spanish colonial rule in Cuba. Nineteenth-century Cuban colonial society and the slavery system...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822956756
• ISBN13: 9780822956754
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"