Social and economic reform in Ecuador : life and work in Guayaquil / Ronn F. Pineo. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pineo, Ronn F., 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urbanization--Ecuador--Guayaquil--History.

Urbanization.

Guayaquil (Ecuador)--Economic conditions.

Guayaquil (Ecuador).

Guayaquil (Ecuador)--Social conditions.

Urbanization--History--Guayaquil--Ecuador.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 227 p. ) ill., maps ;

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Important, empirically grounded portrait of life in Guayaquil at the turn of the century. Situates social changes in context of cacao boom. Notes the cacao industry did not contribute to the development of a significant middle class (who might lobby for urban reform), nor to the emergence of an organized lower class"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57. http://www.loc.gov/hlas

Contents:

1. Urbanization in Nonindustrial, Nonprimary City: A Case Study

2. Economic Geography: Guayaquil, the Guaya River Basin, and the Exigencies of Cacao

3. The Performance of a Primary Product Export: Cacao and the Dimensions of Economic Change

4. The Political Economy of Regionalism: The Fiscal Context

5. The People of Guayaquil: Daily Lives of the Poor and Rich

6. Life in Guayaquil: Servicing a Growing City

7. Disease, Health Care, and Death in Guayaquil

8. Collective Popular Action: Unions, the Collapse of the Export Economy, and the General Strike of 1922

9. Reflections on the Possibilities of Urban Social Reform: Lessons from the Guayaquil Experience.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-8130-2322-X