Daniel James. Dona Maria's Story: L...

Daniel James. Dona Maria's Story: Life, History, Memory, and Political Identity. Durham: Duke UP 2000 316 pp ISBN 0-8223-2455-5 $5495 cloth; ISBN 0-8223-2492-X $1895 paper.

Dona Maria Roldan was an Argentine meatpacker and a union leader working in the industrial town of Berisso (near La Plata) from the 1930 forward She died in 1989. Shortly before her death she gave her "testimonio" to Daniel James, an English oral historian of working-class origins who teaches in the U

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