{"product_id":"the-allure-of-labor-9780822350132","title":"The Allure of Labor","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReveals how Perus early-twentieth-century labor reforms excluded the majority of the countrys laborers. They were indigenous, and the nations elites saw indigeneity as incommensurable with work, modernity, and industrial progress.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Allure of Labor\u003c\/i\u003e is an outstanding book, and its contribution to debates about race, identity, and state formation extend its relevance far beyond Peru.”—\u003cb\u003eCharles F. Walker\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eShaky Colonialism: The 1746 Earthquake-Tsunami in Lima, Peru, and Its Long Aftermath\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In this important book, Paulo Drinot explains perfectly the paradox of Peru’s early-twentieth-century labor legislation. On the one hand, it was comparatively progressive given the country’s level of industrialization. On the other hand, it was entirely inadequate in dealing with the labor conditions experienced by most of the country’s workers. . . . I have long looked for a book that clearly highlights the hopes and fears that ‘modernity’ inspired among Peru’s elites, and the way that their ambivalence was racialized. \u003ci\u003eThe Allure of Labor \u003c\/i\u003edoes the trick.”—\u003cb\u003eDavid S. Parker\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Idea of the Middle Class: White-Collar Workers and Peruvian Society, 1900–1950\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Allure of Labor\u003c\/i\u003e is an extremely important book that should be read by anyone interested in labor history and the history of populism in the Americas, as well as the social and cultural history of Peru.” -- Nathan Clarke * The Latin Americanist *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Allure of Labor\u003c\/i\u003e argues persuasively that industrialization in Peru was as much a cultural policy as an economic one, through which intellectuals and policymakers came to believe the country would be turned into a civilized nation.” -- Gavin O'Toole, * Latin American Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e“Drinot’s book provides a fascinating investigation into how the Peruvian state strived to fashion labour into an agent of progress. . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Allure of Labor\u003c\/i\u003e opens up space for fruitful discussions, providing a wealth of historical data on Peru that can enrich existing debates on the racialization of food, space, health and labour.” -- Karem Roitman * Ethnic and Racial Studies *\u003cbr\u003e“Drinot’s inclusion of a broad variety of perspectives is one of the real strengths of this book. We hear from bureaucrats, public intellectuals, lawyers, presidents, communists, APRA activists, anarchists, employers, and workers themselves. The range of workers considered is likewise diverse: bakers and printers, carpenters and sugar workers, telephone operators and oil workers all appear in the book. . . . This is a valuable book for Latin Americanist historians of labor and race, and a crucial read for historians of Peru.” -- Jaymie Patricia Heilman * American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Allure of Labor\u003c\/i\u003e is a path-breaking, revisionist reinterpretation of state policies towards labour and its role in the modernization of Peru in the first half of the twentieth century.” -- Peter Klaren * Social History *\u003cbr\u003e“Paulo Drinot’s \u003ci\u003eThe Allure of Labor\u003c\/i\u003e manages to say a lot of interesting new things about Peruvian workers, in what is an exemplary study of “governmentality” in Latin America.... this is a smart (and not incidentally, superbly written) book... The finest scholarship raises many new questions, and in this spirit I highly recommend \u003ci\u003eThe Allure of Labor\u003c\/i\u003e to the widest historical audience.” -- Paul Gootenberg * Labor *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Racializing Labor 17\u003cbr\u003e 2. Constituting Labor 51\u003cbr\u003e 3. Disciplining Labor 85\u003cbr\u003e 4. Domesticating Labor 123\u003cbr\u003e 5. Feeding Labor 161\u003cbr\u003e 6. Healing Labor 193\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion 231\u003cbr\u003e Notes 239\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 281\u003cbr\u003e Index 305","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406066000215,"sku":"9780822350132","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822350132.jpg?v=1730494411","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-allure-of-labor-9780822350132","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}