Bolivia, yesterday and today

A country whose republican history is marked by coups d'彋at and social struggles, including a National Revolution, Bolivia remains an enigma in the eyes of Latin American social researchers in general and Brazilian researchers in particular. This collection of works written between 2011 and 2013 aims to fill this gap through a historical analysis of the Andean-Bolivian labour movement. From industrialisation around tin mining throughout much of the 20th century to the Gas War in 2003, the rural and urban proletariat established a mode of action that went beyond the traditional vanguardism of the workers' parties, in the sense of convening and mobilising sectors directly linked to the world of factories and mines, but also peasant and urban sectors.