Before it became the center of Latin American drug trafficking, the Colombian city of Medellin 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 paternalistic order by investigating workers strategies of conformity and resistance and by tracing the disciplinary practices of managers during...
Before it became the center of Latin American drug trafficking, the Colombian city of Medellin was famous as a success story of industrialization, a p...
Before it became the center of Latin American drug trafficking, the Colombian city of Medellin 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 paternalistic order by investigating workers strategies of conformity and resistance and by tracing the disciplinary practices of managers during...
Before it became the center of Latin American drug trafficking, the Colombian city of Medellin was famous as a success story of industrialization, a p...
Containing over one hundred selections--most of them published in English for the first time--The Colombia Reader presents a rich and multilayered account of this complex nation from the colonial era to the present. The collection includes journalistic reports, songs, artwork, poetry, oral histories, government documents, and scholarship to illustrate the changing ways Colombians from all walks of life have made and understood their own history. Comprehensive in scope, it covers regional differences; religion, art, and culture; the urban/rural divide; patterns of racial, economic, and...
Containing over one hundred selections--most of them published in English for the first time--The Colombia Reader presents a rich and multilaye...
Containing over one hundred selections most of them published in English for the first time The Colombia Reader presents a rich and multilayered account of this complex nation from the colonial era to the present. The collection includes journalistic reports, songs, artwork, poetry, oral histories, government documents, and scholarship to illustrate the changing ways Colombians from all walks of life have made and understood their own history. Comprehensive in scope, it covers regional differences; religion, art, and culture; the urban/rural divide; patterns of racial, economic, and...
Containing over one hundred selections most of them published in English for the first time The Colombia Reader presents a rich and multilayere...
