Dulcinea in the Factory: Myths, Morals, Men, and Women in Colombia's Industrial Experiment, 1905-1960

by Ann Farnsworth-Alvear

Book Overview

Before it became the center of Latin American drug trafficking, the Colombian city of Medell n was famous as a success story of industrialization, a place where protectionist tariffs had created a "capitalist paradise." By the 1960s, the city's textile industrialists were presenting themselves as the architects of a social stability that rested on Catholic piety and strict sexual norms. Dulcinea in the Factory explores the boundaries of this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822324970
• ISBN13: 9780822324973
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"