 | Bread Or Bullets: Urban Labor and Spanish Colonialism in Cuba, 1850–1898 Subjects: Labor movement -- Cuba -- History -- 19th century; Slavery -- Cuba -- History -- 19th century; Social classes -- Cuba -- History -- 19th century; Spain -- Colonies -- America -- Administration; Working class -- Cuba -- History -- 19th century; Anarchism -; 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. Joan Casanovas, born in Barcelona, Spain, is assistant professor of Latin American and Carribean history at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain. He has published articles on slavery and the Cuban labor movement in the International Review of Social History and in Cuban Studies 25 . |
