Latin America's middle class
Subtitle: unsettled debates and new histories
By: edited by David S. Parker and Louise E. Walker
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780739168486; 9780739168530; 9780739168493
Subjects: Social conditions; Politics and government; Middle class; Economic conditions; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-220) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The Making and Endless Remaking of the Middle Class / David S. Parker; title: Part 1. The Debates, 1947-1968; title: Middle Groups in National Politics in Latin America / John J. Johnson; title: Aspects of Class Relations in Chile, 1850-1960 / Frederick B. Pike; title: Community Pillars : The Middle Class / Andrew H. Whiteford; title: The Budget / Mario Benedetti; title: Middle-Class Rebels / Francisco López Cámara; title: The Dilemma of the Latin American Middle Class / Charles Wagley; title: Part 2. New Histories; title: Moralizing the Masses / William E. French; title: White-Collar Lima, 1910-1929 : Commercial Employees and the Rise of the Peruvian Middle Class / David S. Parker; title: Domesticating Modernity : Markets, Home, and Morality in the Middle Class in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, 1930s and 1940s / Brian P. Owensby; title: "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; title: Rethinking Aspects of Class Relations in Twentieth-Century Chile / J. Pablo Silva; title: We Were the Middle Class / Rodolfo Barros.