Elena McGrath explores how culture and material conditions create revolutionary conditions. In this interview, Elena helps us understand how the lives of mine workers and their families changed after the revolution.

Elena demonstrates that the revolution brought the mine workers and their families an unprecedented sense of citizenship that did not limit to the right to vote but also to the right to education, health, and social security linked to their work in the mines. In this way, Elena shows us the concrete ways in which the revolution transformed the lives of the mine workers.