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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 earthquak... read moree 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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