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Books and Articles

Iglesias Pantín, Santiago. Luchas emancipadoras: crónicas de Puerto Rico. Vol. 1. San Juan: Cantero, Fernández & Co., 1929.

———. Luchas emancipadoras: crónicas de Puerto Rico. Vol. 2. San Juan: Imprenta Venezuela, 1962. (Posthumous publication covering later years).

Iglesias Pantín, Santiago. Luchas emancipadoras: crónicas de Puerto Rico. San Juan, P.R.: Imprenta Venezuela, 1929. (Vol. I).

The second edition of Vol. I was published in 1958, and Vol. II was published posthumously in 1962.

Iglesias Pantín, Santiago. “Partido Socialista.” In El libro de Puerto Rico / The Book of Porto Rico, edited by Eugenio Fernández García, 208–215. San Juan, P.R.: El Libro Azul Publishing Co., 1923.

Iglesias Pantín, Santiago. Puerto Rico Opposes Independence: Benefits Derived Since 1898 are Not Ignored by Islanders, Says Resident Commissioner. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1937.

Iglesias Pantín, Santiago. Reglamento de la Federación Libre. San Juan, P.R.: Tipografía de la Federación Libre, 1900.

Iglesias Pantín, Santiago. “Labor Conditions in Porto Rico.” American Federationist 8, no. 2 (February 1901): 47–48.

Iglesias Pantín, Santiago. “Organization in Porto Rico.” American Federationist 9, no. 10 (October 1902): 709–711.

Iglesias Pantín, Santiago. “Pan-American Federation of Labor: Creation of the A. F. of L.” International Molders’ Journal 63 (1927).

Selected Editorials. La Prensa (New York). 1901–1902.

Iglesias Pantín, Santiago. “The Social Problem in Porto Rico.” The Comrade [New York] 1, no. 1 (October 1901): 21.

Iglesias Pantín, Santiago. “Organization in Porto Rico.” American Federationist 9, no. 10 (October 1902): 709–711.

Iglesias Pantín, Santiago. “Labor Conditions in Porto Rico.” American Federationist 12, no. 1 (January 1905): 31.

Iglesias Pantín, Santiago. The Status of the Federation of Labor of Puerto Rico: Report to the American Federation of Labor. Washington, D.C.: American Federation of Labor, 1936.

Iglesias Pantín, Santiago. “The Pan-American Federation of Labor.” American Federationist 25, no. 3 (March 1918): 233–235.

Iglesias Pantín, Santiago. A Statement on the Extension of the Wagner-Peyser Act to Puerto Rico. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1936.

Iglesias Pantín, Santiago. Reglamento de la Federación Libre. San Juan, P.R.: Tipografía de la Federación Libre, 1900.

Iglesias Pantín, Santiago. “La cuestión social en el mundo.” In Almanaque de Puerto Rico para 1911, 154–160. San Juan, P.R.: 1910.

Iglesias Pantín, Santiago. ¿Gobierno propio para quién? San Juan, P.R.: Federación Libre de los Trabajadores de Puerto Rico, 1929.

Periodicals Edited and Founded

Note: Iglesias used these papers as his primary platform for political and labor advocacy.

Ensayo Obrero. (Founded 1897). San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Justicia. (Published 1914–1925). San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Porvenir Social. (Published 1898–1900). San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Unión Obrera. (Published 1903–1906). San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Reports and Speeches

Iglesias Pantín, Santiago. Government of Porto Rico: Speech of Hon. Santiago Iglesias, Resident Commissioner from Porto Rico, in the House of Representatives, June 15, 1934. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1934.

———. Labor Conditions in Porto Rico. Report to the American Federation of Labor. Washington, DC: AFL Archive, 1901.

Iglesias Pantín, Santiago. “The Labor Movement in Porto Rico.” American Federationist 11, no. 10 (October 1904): 920–924.

———. “The Condition of Labor in Porto Rico.” American Federationist 27, no. 1 (January 1920): 54–60.

———. “Organized Labor and the New Administration in Puerto Rico.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 185, no. 1 (1936): 107–111.

———. La reconstrucción económica de Puerto Rico: Discurso en la Cámara de Representantes de los Estados Unidos. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1935.

Iglesias Pantín, Santiago. “El movimiento obrero en Cuba y Puerto Rico.” La Revista Blanca (Madrid), no. 34 (1899): 112–115.

———. “The Labor Movement in Porto Rico.” American Federationist (Washington, DC) 11, no. 10 (1904): 920–924.

———. “La Confederación Panamericana del Trabajo.” Revista Mexicana del Trabajo (Mexico City) 5, no. 12 (1925): 15–22.

———. Informe del Secretario de la Confederación Pan-Americana del Trabajo. Washington, DC: Pan-American Federation of Labor, 1927.

Works About Santiago Iglesias Pantín

Books

Córdova, Gonzalo F. Santiago Iglesias Pantín: Creator of the Labor Movement in Puerto Rico. Río Piedras: Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1980.

Córdova, Gonzalo F. Resident Commissioner Santiago Iglesias and His Times. Río Piedras: Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1993.

Romeral, R. del. Santiago Iglesias: su biografía en el movimiento obrero. New York/San Juan, 1901.

Meléndez-Badillo, Jorell A. The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021.

Mourelle de Lema, Manuel. Santiago Iglesias Pantín: Un político circunstancial gallego en Puerto Rico. Coruña, Spain: Edicións do Castro, 2010.

Pagán, Bolívar. Santiago Iglesias Pantín: Su vida, su obra, su pensamiento. San Juan: Imprenta Venezuela, 1939.

Senior, Clarence Ollson. Santiago Iglesias, Labor Crusader. Hato Rey: Inter American University Press, 1972.

Articles and Book Chapters

Erman, Sam. “Santiago Iglesias and the Struggle for Citizenship.” In Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire, 204–235. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Galvin, Miles. “The Early Development of the Puerto Rican Labor Movement.” Latin American Perspectives 3, no. 3 (1976): 61–80.

García, Gervasio L., and Á. G. Quintero Rivera. “Santiago Iglesias y la formación del Partido Socialista.” In Desafío y solidaridad: Breve historia del movimiento obrero puertorriqueño, 45–68. Río Piedras: Ediciones Huracán, 1982.

Whittaker, William George. “The Santiago Iglesias Case, 1901–1902: Origins of American Trade Union Involvement in Puerto Rico.” The Americas 24, no. 4 (1968): 378–393.

Bolívar Fresneda, José L. “Santiago Iglesias Pantín y la coalición: La paradoja del socialismo colonial.” Revista de Ciencias Sociales (Mexico/Puerto Rico) no. 15 (2006): 88–110.

Casanovas, Joan. Bread, or Bullets!: Urban Labor and Spanish Colonialism in Cuba, 1850–1898. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998. (Includes critical context on Iglesias’s expulsion from Cuba in 1896).

Iglesias de Pagán, Igualdad. El obrerismo en Puerto Rico: Época de Santiago Iglesias Pantín, 1896–1905. Palencia, Spain: Imprenta de la Diputación Provincial, 1973.

Moruelle de Lema, Manuel. Santiago Iglesias Pantín: Un político circunstancial gallego en Puerto Rico. Madrid: Grugalma, 2010.

Pacheco Rivera, Rafael. “La influencia de Santiago Iglesias en el sindicalismo mexicano de la posrevolución.” Historia Obrera (Mexico City) 4, no. 15 (1978): 24–31.

Sánchez-García, José. “De La Coruña a San Juan: El anarquismo trasatlántico de Santiago Iglesias.” En Emigración y clase obrera, editado por Francisco Zapata, 142–165. Ciudad de México: El Colegio de México, 2014.

Dissertations and Theses

Córdova, Gonzalo F. “Santiago Iglesias Pantín: Creator of the Labor Movement in Puerto Rico.” PhD diss., Georgetown University, 1977.

Roche Velázquez, Mario. “Santiago Iglesias Pantín y la American Federation of Labor: Un estudio de su correspondencia.” Tesis de Maestría, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras, 2004.

Books and Specialized Monographs

Alonso-Recarte, Claudia. La organización obrera en Puerto Rico y la figura de Santiago Iglesias Pantín. Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2005.

Bothwell, Reece B. Puerto Rico: cien años de lucha política. Vol. 1, Programas y manifiestos (1869-1952). Río Piedras: Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1979. (Contains the ideological platform of Iglesias’s Socialist Party).

Galvin, Miles E. The Organized Labor Movement in Puerto Rico. New York: American Institute for Free Labor Development, 1979.

García, Gervasio L. Historia crítica, historia sin coartadas: Algunos problemas de la historia de Puerto Rico. Río Piedras: Ediciones Huracán, 1985. (Analyzes the “Americanist” strategy of the FLT under Iglesias).

Quintero Rivera, Ángel G. Conflictos de clase y política en Puerto Rico. Río Piedras: Ediciones Huracán, 1976.

Academic Articles and Dissertations

Bolívar Fresneda, José L. “Santiago Iglesias Pantín y la coalición: La paradoja del socialismo colonial.” Revista de Ciencias Sociales (UPR) no. 15 (2006): 88–110.

Carrion, Juan Manuel. “The Socialist Party of Puerto Rico and the Santiago Iglesias Pantín Era.” International Labor and Working-Class History 22 (Fall 1982): 102–105.

Córdova, Gonzalo F. “The Politics of Santiago Iglesias Pantín, 1900–1910.” PhD diss., Georgetown University, 1977.

López-Iñigo, Luis. “La influencia del modelo sindical estadounidense en el liderato de Santiago Iglesias Pantín.” Exegesis: Revista de la Universidad de Puerto Rico en Humacao 14, no. 41 (2001): 22–34.

Morales-Guevara, Rafael. “Transnational Labor Activism: Santiago Iglesias and the Pan-American Federation of Labor.” Journal of Caribbean History 52, no. 2 (2018): 145–167.

Legal and Government Documents

United States District Court for the District of Porto Rico. The People of Porto Rico vs. Santiago Iglesias et al. (1901). Record of Proceedings regarding the charge of “conspiracy to raise the price of labor.”

United States House of Representatives. Memorial Services Held in the House of Representatives of the United States, Together with Remarks Presented in Eulogy of Santiago Iglesias, Late a Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1941.

Samuel Gompers Copybooks: Correspondence between Gompers and Iglesias (e.g., Gompers to Iglesias, October 1, 1901, GCB, Vol. 46, p. 578) documenting his mission while in NYC.

Theodore Roosevelt Papers: Telegrams and letters from November 1901 involving Samuel Gompers and Governor William Henry Hunt regarding Iglesias’s legal status.

Government and Reference Works

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. “Iglesias, Santiago (1872–1939).” U.S. Congress. Accessed May 2, 2025. https://bioguide.congress.gov.

Oficina de Asuntos Culturales. La cultura obrera en Puerto Rico, el liderato de Santiago Iglesias Pantín. San Juan: Oficina del Gobernador, 1982.

Erman, Sam. Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Explores Iglesias’s strategic use of the U.S. legal system to gain legitimacy for the labor movement.

Farinacci Fernós, Jorge M. “Santiago Iglesias, Colón Gordiany: Workers, Political Parties, and the Constitution.” Presentation at the University of Puerto Rico, September 8, 2021.

Discusses how Iglesias’s early 20th-century advocacy directly shaped the social and labor rights enshrined in the 1952 Constitution of Puerto Rico.

Meléndez-Badillo, Jorell A. The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021.

Critical for understanding how Iglesias and other labor leaders created their own history through specialized “worker-intellectual” networks.

Rumbo Alterno. “La Huella de Santiago Iglesias Pantín en la Constitución de Puerto Rico.” Rumbo Alterno, September 10, 2021. https://rumboalterno.net/.

Edited by Aldo Lauria Santiago

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