<p>The authors explore the clearly negative impact of the neoliberal economic model on the Chilean middle class, using teachers as their case study.</p>
Chile's middle class : a struggle for survival in the face of neoliberalism
โ Scribed by Larissa Adler de Lomnitz
- Publisher
- Rienner
- Year
- 1991
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 177
- Series
- LACC Studies on Latin America and the Caribbean
- Category
- Library
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