"We have everything and we have nothing": Empleados and Middle-Class Identities in Bogotá, Colombia: 1930-1955

dc.contributor.authorLopez, Abel R.en
dc.contributor.committeechairGreen, W. Johnen
dc.contributor.committeememberUlloa, Justo C.en
dc.contributor.committeememberArnold, Linda J.en
dc.contributor.departmentHistoryen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:34:50Zen
dc.date.adate2001-05-04en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:34:50Zen
dc.date.issued2001-04-27en
dc.date.rdate2002-05-04en
dc.date.sdate2001-05-03en
dc.description.abstractNo class has created more controversy than the middle class and nowhere has it produced more controversy than in Latin America. No class has been so poorly understood. No class has been so weakly analyzed in historical terms. Moreover, no class has had so many preconceptions and "myths" attached to it. I try to fill this historiographic gap by looking at the construction of empleado identities, as a part of the middle class, between the 1930s and the 1950s in Bogotá, Colombia. By using a diversity of primary sources - diaries, empleado handbooks, manuals, employment forms, historical statistics, government publications, personal archives, oral history and a set of novels - this thesis attempts to look at how empleado identities were "made" by means of the combination of the historical structures and the experiences lived at the very center of daily life.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Artsen
dc.identifier.otheretd-05032001-133000en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05032001-133000/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/32128en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartThesisonline.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectMiddle Classen
dc.subjectwhite-collar workersen
dc.subjectempleadosen
dc.subjecttwentieth centuryen
dc.title"We have everything and we have nothing": Empleados and Middle-Class Identities in Bogotá, Colombia: 1930-1955en
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineHistoryen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen

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