Dulcinea in the Factory ：Myths, Morals, Men, and Women in Colombia’s Industrial Experiment, 1905–1960 ( Comparative and International Working-Class History )

Publication subTitle ：Myths, Morals, Men, and Women in Colombia’s Industrial Experiment, 1905–1960

Publication series ：Comparative and International Working-Class History

Author： Ann Farnsworth-Alvear  

Publisher： Duke University Press‎

Publication year： 2000

E-ISBN: 9780822380269

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780822324973

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780822324614

Subject： F246 劳动关系

Keyword： Women textile workers -- Colombia -- Medell, Women textile workers -- Colombia -- Medellín -- History -- 20th century.

Language： ENG

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Before it became the center of Latin American drug trafficking, the Colombian city of Medellín was famous as a success story of industrialization, a place where protectionist tariffs had created a “capitalist paradise.” By the 1960s, the city’s textile industrialists were presenting themselves as the architects of a social stability that rested on Catholic piety and strict sexual norms. Dulcinea in the Factory explores the boundaries of this paternalistic order by investigating workers’ strategies of conformity and resistance and by tracing the disciplinary practices of managers during the period from the turn of the century to a massive reorganization of the mills in the late 1950s.

Ann Farnsworth-Alvear’s analyses of archived personnel records, internal factory correspondence, printed regulations, and company magazines are combined with illuminating interviews with retired workers to allow a detailed reconstruction of the world behind the mill gate. In a place where the distinction between virgins and nonvirgins organized the labor market for women, the distance between chaste and unchaste behavior underlay a moral code that shaped working women’s self-perceptions. Farnsworth-Alvear challenges the reader to understand gender not as an opposition between female and male but rather as a normative field, marked by “proper” and “improper” ways of being female or male. Disputing the idea that th

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