The identity of class in Latin America: Objective class position and subjective class identification in Argentina and Chile (2009).
Class identity is a key mechanism in the explanation of class-based collective action. For decades, this was particularly relevant in Latin America, where objective class inequality was persistent and there was a long history of collective action, originating in the workplace and expressed through u...
| Publicado en: | Current Sociology Vol. 66; no. 5; pp. 724 - 748 |
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Sep2018
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