Scaling the commanding heights of the economy?: a century of mineworkers’ spatial projects in the Peruvian Ande0073

Abstract

This chapter analyses and compares three moments in the construction of the Peruvian mining workers’ movement. Through the analysis of specific acts of protest, I explore the tensions that emerged in the articulation of a national labour identity between the 1920s and the early twenty-first century. Inspired by Labour Geography, I analyse workers’ advances, failures, and challenges faced in building a common base of claims and identities and show how the production of new geographical scales of organising is a political project.