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Newberry Seminar in Labor History, March 25: Angela Vergara
| Location: | Illinois, United States |
| Seminar Date: | 2011-03-25 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2011-03-15 |
| Announcement ID: |
183880 |
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March 25, 2011, 3:00–5:00 p.m.
Land, Labor and Production in the Chilean Wine Industry
Angela Vergara, California State University, Los Angeles
Commentators: Brodwyn Fischer, Northwestern University and Kris Jones, Independent Schoalr
Small farmers constituted the big majority of wine producers in Chile, but they contributed little to Chile’s wine production. They typically owned or rented less than 12 acres of non-irrigated land, cultivated local types of vine stocks, used vines that were usually too old and sick and had limited access to technical assistance, fertilizers or credit. My paper explores the social and labor history of wine production in twentieth-century Chile through the experience and struggles of small-scale wine producers. In doing so, this work sheds light on the tensions of Chilean rural society: unequal land distribution, lack of credit and modernization and labor exploitation.
All papers are pre-circulated electronically to those who plan to attend the seminar in person. For a copy of the paper, e-mail Heather Radke at scholl@newberry.org, or call 312-255-3524. Please do not request a paper unless you plan to attend.
http://www.newberry.org/scholl
Co-sponsored by the History Departments of Northern Illinois University, Northwestern University, Roosevelt University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture at theUniversity of Chicago; and Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas
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