Social and economic reform in Ecuador

by Ronn F. Pineo

"Important, empirically grounded portrait of life in Guayaquil at the turn of the century. Situates social changes in context of cacao boom. Notes the cacao industry did not contribute to the development of a significant middle class (who might lobby for urban reform), nor to the emergence of an organized lower class"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.