The idea of the middle class : white-collar workers and Peruvian society, 1900-1950 /
No social class has generated more controversy than the middle class, and nowhere has that class been more controversial than in Latin America. Once believed not to exist, then later the great hope of the Alliance for Progress, the Latin American middle class is often blamed for not fulfilling the e...
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University Park, Pa. :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
c1998.
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Table of Contents:
- Images of Society in Early Twentieth-Century Peru
- White-Collar Work, White-Collar Lives
- Employee Organization and the Birth of the Middle Class
- The Struggle for Protective Legislation, 1920-1929
- Empleados and Obreros: Legislating Social Classes
- White-Collar Workers in the 1930s
- Empleados, APRA, and Middle-Class Politics
- Changes at Work and Home, 1930-1950
- Empleados and the Idea of the Middle Class, 1940-1990: Image and Reality, Change and Continuity.