Title :	Guantánamo: A Working-Class History Between Empire and Revolution
Material Type:	printed text
Authors:	Jana K. Lipman, Author
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication Date:	2009
ISBN (or other code):	PRILIP2009
Languages :	English (eng)
Descriptors:	Labour, Unionism, Working-Class Prisons
Keywords:	Guantánamo, prison, prisons, history, latin american studies, labor studies
Abstract:	Gauntánamo has become a symbol of what has gone wrong in the War on Terror. Yet Guanánamo is more than a U.S. naval base and prison in Cuba. It is a town, and our military occupation there has required more than soldiers and sailors—it has required workers. This revealing history of the women and men who worked on the U.S.naval base in Guantánamo Bay tells the story of U.S.-Cuban relations from a new perspective and, at the same time, shows how neocolonialism, empire, and revolution transformed the lives of everyday people. Drawing from rich oral histories and little-explored Cuban archives, Jana K. Lipman analyzes how the Cold War and the Cuban revolution made the naval bas a place devoid of law and accountability. Opening a new window onto the history of the U.S. imperialism in the Caribbean and the history of labor in the region, her book tells ow events in Guantánamo and on the base created an ominous precedent likely to inform the functioning of U.S. military bases around the world.

Guantánamo: A Working-Class History Between Empire and Revolution [printed text] / Jana K. Lipman, Author . - [S.l.] : University of California Press, 2009.
ISSN : PRILIP2009
Languages : English (eng)

Descriptors:	Labour, Unionism, Working-Class Prisons
Keywords:	Guantánamo, prison, prisons, history, latin american studies, labor studies
Abstract:	Gauntánamo has become a symbol of what has gone wrong in the War on Terror. Yet Guanánamo is more than a U.S. naval base and prison in Cuba. It is a town, and our military occupation there has required more than soldiers and sailors—it has required workers. This revealing history of the women and men who worked on the U.S.naval base in Guantánamo Bay tells the story of U.S.-Cuban relations from a new perspective and, at the same time, shows how neocolonialism, empire, and revolution transformed the lives of everyday people. Drawing from rich oral histories and little-explored Cuban archives, Jana K. Lipman analyzes how the Cold War and the Cuban revolution made the naval bas a place devoid of law and accountability. Opening a new window onto the history of the U.S. imperialism in the Caribbean and the history of labor in the region, her book tells ow events in Guantánamo and on the base created an ominous precedent likely to inform the functioning of U.S. military bases around the world.