Bread, Justice, and Liberty: Grassroots Activism and Human Rights in Pinochet's Chile - Hardcover

by Alison Bruey (Author)

Winner of the SECOLAS Alfred B. Thomas Book Award
Named Best Social Science Book, LASA Southern Cone Studies Section

In Santiago, Chile, poverty and state violence have often led to grassroots resistance movements among the poor and working class. Alison J. Bruey offers a compelling history of the struggle for social justice and democracy during the Pinochet dictatorship. Deeply grounded by both extensive oral history interviews and archival research, Bread, Justice, and Liberty provides innovative contributions to scholarship on Chilean history, social movements, popular protest and democratization, neoliberal economics, and the Cold War in Latin America.

Author Biography

Alison J. Bruey is an associate professor of history at the University of North Florida and the coauthor of Tortura en poblaciones del Gran Santiago (1973-1990).