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The Idea of the Middle Class: White-Collar Workers and Peruvian Society, 1900–1950

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Description for The Idea of the Middle Class: White-Collar Workers and Peruvian Society, 1900–1950 Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 640.

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 entrepreneurial, democratizing, progressive, or stabilizing role that others ascribe to it. Yet never has a class so widely discussed been so little studied and so poorly understood. David Parker meets this challenge by combining the methods of social historians with attention to language and the cultural construction of meaning as ... Read more

This book provides a rich description of the lifestyle, values, and attitudes of this rising middle class in their never-ending quest for economic stability, respectability, and recognition in Peruvian society. Through a series of deftly drawn biographical profiles based on a variety of published and archival sources, Parker succeeds in personalizing and bringing alive his protagonists in a way that not only engages the reader but also reveals the importance of personal agency often lost in theoretically and ideologically driven studies of class.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780271017433
SKU
V9780271017433
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About David S. Parker
D. S. Parker is Assistant Professor of History at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada.

Reviews for The Idea of the Middle Class: White-Collar Workers and Peruvian Society, 1900–1950
“This brilliant and path-breaking study of white-collar workers in Lima provides a near perfect mix of the material, cultural, and political components of class formation.” —Joel Wolfe Latin American Research Review “Through a careful analysis of how this ‘invention of the early twentieth century’ became an integral part of Peruvian culture, there is no doubt that D. S. Parker’s ... Read more

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