Latin America's middle class : unsettled debates and new histories / edited by David S. Parker and Louise E. Walker.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-220) and index.

Introduction: The Making and Endless Remaking of the Middle Class / David S. Parker -- Part 1. The Debates, 1947-1968 -- Middle Groups in National Politics in Latin America / John J. Johnson -- Aspects of Class Relations in Chile, 1850-1960 / Frederick B. Pike -- Community Pillars : The Middle Class / Andrew H. Whiteford -- The Budget / Mario Benedetti -- Middle-Class Rebels / Francisco López Cámara -- The Dilemma of the Latin American Middle Class / Charles Wagley -- Part 2. New Histories -- Moralizing the Masses / William E. French -- White-Collar Lima, 1910-1929 : Commercial Employees and the Rise of the Peruvian Middle Class / David S. Parker -- Domesticating Modernity : Markets, Home, and Morality in the Middle Class in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, 1930s and 1940s / Brian P. Owensby -- "It Is Not Something You Can Be or Come to Be Overnight" : Empleados, Mujeres de Oficina, and Gendered Middle Class Identities in Bogotá, Colombia, 1930-55 / A. Ricardo López-Pedreros -- Rethinking Aspects of Class Relations in Twentieth-Century Chile / J. Pablo Silva -- We Were the Middle Class / Rodolfo Barros.