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Ejercicio de orientación nº1:
Tracing the Veins of Copper, Culture, and Community from Butte to Chuquicamata
JANICE L. FINN, 1998 Berkeley: University of California Press

By 1971, the spatial and temporal structuring of women's lives was encountering fissures and arrhythmia. The year marks a critical juncture in this story of transnational capitalism. The interlocking history of Butte and Chuquicamata was about to be severed. Allende's election in 1970 spurred an exodus of Yankee managers from Chuquicamata.
In Chuquicamata, the Popular Unity government was incorporating into its political discourse women's social practice as conservers of community. Party representatives called on women's political engagement in housewives' committees and pulpería commitees to address problems of management and shortages. On the eve of nationalization of the mines in July of 1971, Chuquicamata was struggling with shortages and looking to women to position themselves between scarcity and need. But the paternal provider had abandoned the women of Chuquicamata and taken the resource with him. (p. 166)