Democracy
Gen Z and the bankruptcy of “Company-Store Democracy”*: From nitrate tokens to a generational verdict
Across the arid pampas of Tarapacá and Antofagasta, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Chilean nitrate mining camps erected a system of total domination that went far beyond ordinary labor exploitation. Thousands of workers—Chileans, Bolivians, Peruvians, Croatians, Italians—lived…




