...Cary Fraser Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class . By Chomsky Aviva . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2008 . Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xiii , 398 pp. Cloth , $84.95 . Paper , $23.95...

...Frank Andre Guridy Guantánamo: A Working-Class History between Empire and Revolution . By Lipman Jana K. . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2009 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. x , 325 pp. Cloth , $60.00 . Paper , $24.95...

...Daniel A. Rodriguez Abstract This essay explores the radicalization of the Cuban medical class in the context of the economic and political crises of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Organized under the Cuban Medical Federation, physicians targeted Havana's Spanish-run hospital system for its low...

...Ana S. Q. Liberato The Mulatto Republic: Class, Race, and Dominican National Identity . By Mayes April J. . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2014 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 195 pp. Cloth , $69.95 . Copyright © 2015...

...Sarah E. Vaughn Entrepreneurial Selves: Neoliberal Respectability and the Making of a Caribbean Middle Class . By Freeman Carla . Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2014 . Photographs. Figure. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii...

...Ann S. Blum Children of Fate: Childhood, Class, and the State in Chile, 1850 – 1930 . By Milanich Nara B. . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2009 . Photographs. Map. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xv , 335 pp. Paper , $24.95 . Copyright 2011...

... behaviors. Male psychiatrists who for the most part received their education in Porfirian Mexico, for example, infused their diagnoses with normative notions of gender and class, detecting signs of mental illness in cases where human conduct deviated from socially condoned models of female domesticity...

...J. Justin Castro Railroad Radicals in Cold War Mexico: Gender, Class, and Memory . By Robert F. Alegre . Foreword by Elena Poniatowska . The Mexican Experience . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2013 . Photographs. Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xx, 275 pp. Paper...

...Olga Jiménez-Wagenheim Producing Power: Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in a Caribbean Workplace . By Yelvington Kevin A. . Philadelphia : Temple University Press , 1995 . Maps. Tables. Figure. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xv , 286 pp. Cloth , $49.95 . Paper , $22.95...

... America. The third and fourth parts of the book constitute the core of the study. Ranis’ surveys show that Argentine workers do have a class consciousness, but one that is rooted in ideas like social justice and freedom rather than the ideological tenets of Marxism-Leninism. The workers come across...

...John Lear In this well-written and innovative book, William French rejects the “essentialism” of historians who have assumed that particular forms of class consciousness and action emerge inevitably from capitalist wage relations or dependent export production. He does not focus exclusively...

...Brian McBeth Rethinking Venezuelan Politics: Class, Conflict, and the Chávez Phenomenon . By Ellner Steve . Boulder, CO : Lynne Rienner , 2008 . Notes. Bibliography. Index . xiv , 257 . Cloth , $55.00 . Copyright 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 The current...

...John D. French Owensby’s study confirms my long-term conviction that the investigation of the non-manual “middle class” is a new frontier in our drive to deepen the “new labor history” of the last 30 years. Although briefly the focus of attention in the late 1950s and early 1960s (especially...

...David S. Parker Reforming Chile: Cultural Politics, Nationalism, and the Rise of the Middle Class . By Barrmelej Patrick . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2001 . Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xvi , 288 pp. Cloth , $49.95 . Paper...

...Emilio Coral Mexico’s Middle Class in the Neoliberal Era . By Gilbert Dennis L. . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2007 . Photographs. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xi , 141 pp. Cloth , $35.00 . Copyright 2009 by Duke University Press 2009...

... or collections of readings designed for classroom use. Even among North American writings, there is no mention of some of the most significant work on the Church, such as that of Thomas Sanders or Henry Landsberger. The absence of survey data in regard to the central variable of social class leaves...

...: West Indian Perspectives . Edited by Comitas Lambros and Lowenthal David . Garden City, New York , 1973 . Anchor Press/Doubleday . Tables. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xvii , 422 . Paper. $2.95 . Consequences of Class and Color: West Indian Perspectives . Edited by Lowenthal...

...David Scott Palmer Reflections on Class Theory Suggested by Analyses of the Perúvian Military Regime, 1968-1979 . By Cavanagh Jonathan . Göttingen : B. Fries , 1980 . Tables. Notes. Appendixes. Bibliography . Pp. ix , 558 . Paper . Copyright 1984 by Duke University Press...

... of the book, “the corporate national bourgeoisie,” is fuzzy. Becker calls it a dominant class without specifying what this means. The relationship among this class, the state, and transnational capital remains ambivalent, even after 342 pages. Second, the concept of “bonanza development” needs more...

... stability, facilitating the rapid accumulation of capital by an elite. Also, because of these corporativist reforms, the state could claim to stand above the class struggle, and thus deal impartially with workers, the bourgeoisie, as well as North American imperialists. That pretense was but a fig leaf...