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...
