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

by Danny S. Parker and David S. Parker

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271017449
• ISBN13: 9780271017440
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"