Social and economic reform in Ecuador
Subtitle: life and work in Guayaquil
By: Ronn F. Pineo.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
Subjects: Urbanization -- Ecuador -- Guayaquil -- History.; Guayaquil (Ecuador) -- Economic conditions.; Guayaquil (Ecuador) -- Social conditions.
Description: "Important, empirically grounded portrait of life in Guayaquil at the turn of the century. Situates social changes in context of cacao boom. Notes the cacao industry did not contribute to the development of a significant middle class (who might lobby for urban reform), nor to the emergence of an organized lower class"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-224) and index.