Working in the Magic City(English, Electronic book text, Castillo Thomas A.)

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Working in the Magic City(English, Electronic book text, Castillo Thomas A.) is written by Castillo Thomas A. and published by University of Illinois Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0252053451 (ISBN 10) and 9780252053450 (ISBN 13).

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.