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The development of the Colombian economy in the 20th century was not as favorable for labor as compared to other Latin American countries, particularly when it came to the key export of coffee, which over the course of the 20th century came to dominate Colombian exports. Coffee, as an industry, was dominated by small growers, whose labor tended to come from the family-unit as opposed to the wage-laborer. While other industries which depend heavily on wage-labor did come to play a significant role in the development of the Colombian economy, such as the oil or banana industries, these wage-labor dependent industries did not come to play as significant a role as in other Latin American countries, and this fact, coupled with the continued persistence of the two-party system in Colombia, left a self-identifying working class comparatively small, and a militant labor movement comparatively less successful.

1920-1946: Beginnings & Growth
As Colombia’s economy began to industrialize, the formation of an industrial working class began to develop, and union activity followed soon after. Union activity flourished under the employment conditions of foreign firms such as New Jersey Standard Oil and the United Fruit Company, where workers had to migrate to formerly sparsely populated areas of rain forest for employment, and upon arriving found their living conditions to be in stark contrast to those of their foreign employers. A pattern of strikes & their ensuing suppression emerged in the 1920s in these industries, employees of the former going on strike in 1924 & 1927 only to be met by government intervention, a large strike of the latter in 1928 being infamously ended by the Banana Massacre, where an unknown number of workers (from a few dozen to 3000) died after the government decided to send military forces. The working conditions of these Colombian laborers have some famous representation in literature, Jose Eustacio Rivera’s La Voragine depicting both the plight of the rubber worker & the rich biodiversity of the Colombian countryside, Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude & Álvaro Cepeda Samudio’s La Casa Grande containing fictional versions of the banana massacre.

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