Organizing Strangers: Poor Families in Guatemala City
Autor Bryan R. Robertsen Limba Engleză Paperback – aug 1973
Organizing Strangers gives an account of how poor people cope with an unstable and mobile urban environment, and case material is provided on the emergence of collective action among them. Several themes that are crucial to understanding the significance of urban growth in the underdeveloped world are explored: the impact of city life on rural migrants, the relationship between living in cities and the development of class consciousness, and the changing significance of personal relationships as a means of organizing social and economic life.
Guatemala City’s rapid growth and low level of industrialization created a keen competition for jobs and available living space and inhibited the development of cohesive residential groupings. Thus the poor found themselves living and working with people who were mostly strangers. Trust is difficult to create in such an environment, and the absence of trust affected the capacity of the poor to organize themselves.
While the poor were integrated into city life, the manner of their integration exposed them to greater exploitation than if they were truly socially isolated or marginal. Bryan Roberts analyzes a variety of formally organized voluntary associations involving the poor and concludes that such associations are essentially means by which middle- and upper-status groups seek to negotiate order among the poor.
The problems faced by these poor families are due less to their own incapacities or inactivity than to the effects of economic and political relationships that exploit them locally, nationally, and even internationally. A major conclusion of this study is that the uncertainties in the relationships among poor people and between them and other social groups are the underlying causes of a general political and economic instability.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781477304792
ISBN-10: 1477304797
Pagini: 378
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
ISBN-10: 1477304797
Pagini: 378
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Notă biografică
Bryan R. Roberts is C. B. Smith Sr. Chair in U.S.-Mexico Relations and Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin.
Cuprins
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Social Change in City and Nation
- 2. The Experience of Migration
- 3. Urban Careers
- 4. The Span of Social Relationships
- 5. External Relations and Neighborhood Organization
- 6. The Formation of a Voluntary Association: The Consumer Cooperative
- 7. The Organization of a Neighborhood
- 8. The Reorganization of the Poor in an Urban Setting
- Bibliography
- Index
Descriere
How poor people cope with an unstable and mobile urban environment in Central America.