Working Under Dictatorship: Discipline, Violence, And Silence

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35588/rhsm.v27i2.6220

Keywords:

Military coup, Workers labor, Discipline, Human rights

Abstract

This essay discusses the impact of the coup d’état on Chilean workers. By 1973, entrepreneurs were increasingly concerned about the lack of discipline in the workplace. The military coup offered them a new opportunity to regain control over the workforce and production, task that they delegated into the armed forces. Based on the analysis of human rights accounts and legal cases of people fired for political reasons, I show how the dictatorship sought to “normalize” relations within the factory, which will support future transformations.

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Author Biography

  • Angela Vergara, California State University, Los Angeles

    Ángela Vergara is a professor in the Department of History at California State University, Los Angeles, USA. She did her undergraduate studies at the Catholic University of Chile in Santiago (1994) and obtained her PhD at the University of California, San Diego (2002). His most recent book is a history of unemployment in Chile (Fighting Unemployment in Twentieth-Century Chile, 2021). He is currently researching the history of mining tragedies, accidents, and environmental impact in Chile and the United States.

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Published

2023-11-12

Issue

Vol. 27 No. 2 (2023): Wars, Memories and Nationhood in Spanish America. The Paraguayan War (1864-1870) and the War of the Pacific (1879-1883)

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Research Notes

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How to Cite

Working Under Dictatorship: Discipline, Violence, And Silence. (2023). Revista De Historia Social Y De Las Mentalidades, 27(2), 419-442. https://doi.org/10.35588/rhsm.v27i2.6220