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Perilous pathways to middle class employment -- Housing, extended family, and the search for a sense of place -- School choice : neighborhoods, values, and concerted cultivation -- Community, conflict and citizenship at schools -- Home decorations as representations of family, taste, and identity -- Leisure time practices across groups and communities -- Conclusion : identity investments, precarious privilege and Chile's political transformation.

The Sociology of Consumption: A Global Approachoffers college students, scholars, and interested readers a state-of-the-art overview of consumption the desire for, purchase, use, display, exchange, and disposal of goods and services. The book's global focus, emphasis on social inequality, and analysis of consumer citizenship offer a timely, exciting, and original approach to the topic. Looking beyond the U.S. and Europe, Stillerman engages examples from his and others' research in Chile and other Latin American countries, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and East and South Asia to explore the interaction between global and local forces in consumption. The text explores the lived experience of being a consumer, demonstrating how social inequalities based on class, gender, sexuality, race, and age shape consumer practices and identities. Finally, the book uncovers the important role consumption has played in fueling local and international activism. This welcome new book will be ideal for classes on consumer culture across the social sciences, humanities, and marketing. Joel Stillermanis Associate Professor of Sociology at Grand Valley State University.

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AbstractResearch on strikes has traditionally focused on how economic, institutional, and political variables shape strike patterns. Recent work examines how workers' structural, associational, and symbolic power facilitate strikes. Building on this research, this article asks, what factors determine strike outcomes? It analyzes four strikes at MADECO, Chile's largest copper manufacturer, across democratic, authoritarian, and postauthoritarian regimes. Using qualitative and documentary evidence, it argues that strike outcomes reflect workers' capacity to halt or disrupt production and to access government allies who can pressure management to settle strikes in workers' favor. Outcomes vary based on the political composition of government, workers' capacity to halt production, and industry's and government's dependence on foreign investment. MADECO workers' location in Santiago, near national officials, allowed them to mobilize at the local, national, and international scales to pressure management. Comparisons with other strikes in Chile, Argentina, and Peru identify similar mobilization patterns.

Recent scholarship contends that the rise of shopping malls, gated communities, and gentrification as well as citizens' withdrawal to the private realm have eroded public life in U.S. and Latin American cities. Malls' suburban location and security policies exclude the poor and restrict free speech; residents and fences in gated communities exclude outsiders; and police and businesses in downtowns and high‐rent districts limit poor people's access to public areas. I expand this discussion with an analysis of the accessibility of Santiago, Chile's retail areas, the social relationships present there, and marginalized groups' informal resistance to their exclusion. The city's distinct segregation pattern, transit system, and state‐licensed street markets permit greater contact between rich and poor and foster vital public spaces. I adapt Lofland's typology of fleeting, quasi‐primary, and intimate secondary relations in public to examine social interactions in street markets, flea markets, and shopping malls. The distinct mix of relationships within these markets reflects the characteristics of users, varying degrees of accessibility to diverse populations, and state policies toward markets. Marginalized groups' informal resistance is pervasive in each setting. In contrast to the dominant view that public space is declining in contemporary cities, Santiago residents are not universally reclusive, antisocial, or reluctant to engage in cross‐class public encounters, and the city retains vital public areas. The findings demonstrate that our understanding of public space is incomplete without an awareness of social relationships and informal resistance alongside structural constraints to the accessibility of urban locales.

There is a large body of literature examining the Chilean military regime's effects on workers, firms, and the labor movement. However, few studies examine the experiences and actions of specific groups of workers. This article analyzes the trajectory of the blue collar union at MADECO, S.A., from 1973 to the present. It uses ethnographic, in-depth interview, and archival methods. The study examines the causes and consequences of the 1983 strike at MADECO. It also contributes to the debate within historical sociology between those supporting the development of general models based on rational choice theory and others who emphasize the particularities of historical events and theirmultiple causes. The article demonstrates that distinct groups of events catalyzed the strike and that this conflict had unintended consequences for the firm and its workers. The results help understand the cultural transformation of MADECO workers and illustrate the value of an approach to understanding particular historical events that identifies their complex causes. ; Existe un importante cuerpo de investigación sobre los efectos del régimen militar chileno en los trabajadores, las empresas y el movimiento sindical, pero pocos estudios examinan las experiencias y acciones de grupos específicos de obreros en Chile. Este artículo propone un análisis de la trayectoria del sindicato obrero de MADECO S.A., desde 1973 hasta el presente. A través de la observación etnográfica, entrevistas en profundidad y la revisión de fuentes documentales, se busca examinar en clave socio-histórica las causas y las consecuencias de la huelga de 1983 en MADECO. En tal sentido, se trata de un aporte al estudio del sindicalismo desde la sociología histórica que pone el énfasis en las particularidades de los eventos históricos y sus múltiples causas. Este artículo muestra la forma en que distintos conjuntos de eventos catalizaron la huelga y la manera en que ésta tuvo efectos inesperados en la empresa y los trabajadores. Los resultados permiten entender el ...

Geography is a central factor influencing political opportunities, alliances between movement organizations and elites, and contentious repertoires. Scholarship incidentally refers to the relationship between geography and social protest, though recent work gives space greater theoretical importance. I bridge key concepts in social movement theory with work on space and protest through an analysis of a 1960 metalworkers' strike in Santiago, Chile and comparison with a contemporaneous provincial coal miners' strike. This article presents evidence that (1) characteristics of the built environment and everyday spatial routines in specific locales influence activists' tactical repertoires; (2) local political opportunities and alliance patterns significantly affect movement strategy and protest outcomes: and (3) social movement organizations operate within a nested opportunity structure in which local, regional, national, and international actors and opportunities interact in the context of con-tentious episodes. The findings have implications for studies of tactical repertoires and policing, comparisons of local movements, and nested opportunities in centralized and federal states.

Bridges key concepts in social movement theory with work on space & protest through an analysis of a 1960 metalworkers' strike in Santiago, Chile, & comparison with a contemporaneous provincial coal miners' strike. Presented is evidence that (1) characteristics of the built environment & everyday spatial routines in specific locales influence activists' tactical repertoires; (2) local political opportunities & alliance patterns significantly affect movement strategy & protest outcomes; & (3) social movement organizations operate in a nested opportunity structure in which local, regional, national, & international actors & opportunities interact in the context of contentious episodes. Findings have implications for studies of tactical repertoires & policing, comparisons of local movements, & nested opportunities in centralized & federal states. 1 Figure, 1 Appendix, 60 References. Adapted from the source document.