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Abstract: This thesis deals with the 1906 Valparaíso, Chile earthquake within
broader ideas of urban history and the history of social movements and labor in particular.
Valparaíso's population quickly grew in the last portion of the 19th century, and with this
population growth came an increasingly organized and militant labor movement. In the midst
of this change in the city, a massive earth... read morequake hit the port on August 16th, 1906. In the
aftermath, the local authorities desired complete obedience from the population and were
ready and willing to violently suppress the local population. The labor movement in the
port was temporarily debilitated, but La Reforma, a labor
newspaper from Santiago, offered a critical view on the responses of the state and the
elite, and proposed working class solidarity to combat the disaster committee by the state
and elites.
Thesis (M.A.)--Tufts University, 2012.
Submitted to the Dept. of History.
Advisor: Peter Winn.
Committee: Reed Ueda, and Ryan Centner.
Keywords: Latin American history, and History.read less
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