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Patricia Parkman

Insurrectionary Civic Strikes in Latin America, 1931-1961 (1990)

Insurrectionary Civic Strikes in Latin America, 1931-1961 (1990) by Patricia Parkman

Introduction

One of the characteristic features of the Latin American political land- scape is a phenomenon best described as a civic strike: the collective suspension of normal activities by people of diverse social groups united by a common political objecti...