A Century of Violence in a Red City

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A Century of Violence in a Red City is written by Lesley Gill and published by Duke University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0822374706 (ISBN 10) and 9780822374701 (ISBN 13).

Lesley Gill traces the rise and fall of the strong labor unions and working class of Barrancabermeja, Colombia, showing how the incursion of neoliberalism, the drug trade, and counterinsurgency military campaigns into civil society that began in the 1980s has destabilized everyday life and decimated the city's powerful social institutions.