Title: La Internacional comunista y América Latina
First published: 1996
Description: "Study of union movements - particularly oil workers' syndicates - in Venezuela to 1950. Argues that the Communist Party was the dominant force in the labor movement in its early decades. Based largely on oral histories and union publications; presents a somewhat simplistic vision of Gen. Juan Vicente Gómez as a tool of the oil companies"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Subjects: History, Politics and government, Labor unions, Labor movement, Working class, Political activity
Places: Venezuela
Time periods: 20th century, 1935-1958, 1908-1935
LC classification: HD8368 .P58 1996