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Karen Robert, "Driving Terror: Labor, Violence, and Justice in Cold War Argentina" (U New Mexico Press, 2025)

New Books in Economic and Business History

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Working at Ford and the Global Auto Crisis

What factory life meant at Ford Argentina, the prestige and expectations of auto work, and how late-1960s Fordist crisis—mechanization, layoffs, and speed-ups—sparked rising labor conflict.

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