Latin America's middle class : unsettled debates and new histories / edited by David S. Parker and Louise E. Walker.

Other author Parker, D. S. (David Stuart), 1960-
Other author Walker, Louise E., 1977-
Format Book
PublicationLanham : Lexington Books, 2013.
Copyright Date©2013
Descriptionviii, 227 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Middle class--Latin America. --History. --20th century.
Latin America--Social conditions. --20th century.
Latin America--Economic conditions. --20th century.
Latin America--Politics and government. --20th century.

Contents Introduction: The Making and Endless Remaking of the Middle Class / David S. Parker -- Part 1. The Debates, 1947-1968 -- Middle Groups in National Politics in Latin America / John J. Johnson -- Aspects of Class Relations in Chile, 1850-1960 / Frederick B. Pike -- Community Pillars : The Middle Class / Andrew H. Whiteford -- The Budget / Mario Benedetti -- Middle-Class Rebels / Francisco López Cámara -- The Dilemma of the Latin American Middle Class / Charles Wagley -- Part 2. New Histories -- Moralizing the Masses / William E. French -- White-Collar Lima, 1910-1929 : Commercial Employees and the Rise of the Peruvian Middle Class / David S. Parker -- Domesticating Modernity : Markets, Home, and Morality in the Middle Class in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, 1930s and 1940s / Brian P. Owensby -- "It Is Not Something You Can Be or Come to Be Overnight" : Empleados, Mujeres de Oficina, and Gendered Middle Class Identities in Bogotá, Colombia, 1930-55 / A. Ricardo López-Pedreros -- Rethinking Aspects of Class Relations in Twentieth-Century Chile / J. Pablo Silva -- We Were the Middle Class / Rodolfo Barros.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2012038448
ISBN9780739168486 (cloth : alkaline paper)
ISBN0739168487 (cloth : alkaline paper)
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