Working in the Magic City: Moral Economy in Early Twentieth-Century Miami (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780252044458)

In the early twentieth century, Miami cultivated an image of itself as a destination for leisure and sunshine free from labor strife. Thomas A. Castillo unpacks this idea of class harmony and the language that articulated its presence by delving into the conflicts, repression, and progressive grassroots politics of the time. Castillo pays particular attention to how class and race relations reflected and reinforced the nature of power in Miami. Class harmony argued against the existence of labor conflict, but in reality obscured how workers struggled within the city's service-oriented seasonal economy. Castillo shows how and why such an ideal thrived in Miami's atmosphere of growth and boosterism and amidst the political economy of tourism. His analysis also presents class harmony as a theoretical framework that broadens our definitions of class conflict and class consciousness.

Author: Thomas A. Castillo
ISBN-10: 0252044452
ISBN-13: 9780252044458
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Language: English
Published: 06/28/2022
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.20w x 1.10d