I Spent My Life in the Mines : : The Story of Juan Rojas, Bolivian Tin Miner / / June Nash.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Nash, June,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; PART ONE. 1926–70 --; 1. Introduction: Revolutionary Parallels in a Life History --; 2. From the Countryside to the Mine --; 3. Entry into the Mines --; 4. My Military Service --; 5. Working in the Mines --; 6. Homework --; 7. Petrona’s Account of Their Wedding --; 8. Married Life in the Mining Camp --; 9. The Triumph of the Revolution: The Workers Are Lords of the National Wealth --; 10. We Miners Lived Like Rats in the Mining Camp --; 11. Luck in the Mines --; 12. Union Struggles --; 13. After the Fall --; 14. I Bury Myself Alive Every Day --; 15. My Lungs Are Exhausted --; 16. You Can Die Working --; 17. How the Poor Get Buried --; PART TWO. Fifteen Years Later --; 18. The Rich Are Richer and the Poor Are Poorer --; 19. Petrona --; 20. Juan --; 21. Juan Manuel --; 22. Elena --; 23. Epilogue --; REFERENCES CITED --; GLOSSARY --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231884082; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/nash91510
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: June Nash.

A collection of personal testimonies of tin miners in Bolivia gathered as a means of analyzing the development of consciousness among workers as well as the unconscious values that motivated their actions.