Type of Document	Master's Thesis
Author	Lopez, Abel R
Author's Email Address	ablopez@vt.edu
URN	etd-05032001-133000
Title	“We have everything and we have nothing”: Empleados and Middle-Class Identities in Bogotá, Colombia: 1930-1955.
Degree	Master of Arts
Department	History
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title W. John Green Committee Chair Justo C. Ulloa Committee Member Linda Arnold Committee Member
Keywords	Middle Class white-collar workers. empleados twentieth century
Date of Defense	2001-04-27
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract “We have everything and we have nothing”: Empleados and Middle-Class Identities in Bogotá, Colombia: 1930-1955. (Abstract) No 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.
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