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

Pitt Latin American Studies

by Joan Casanovas

The first thoroughly documented history of organized labor in nineteenth-century Cuba, this work 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.

336 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998