Modo de desarrollo, estructura de clases sociales y desigualdad durante el siglo XIX en Colombia

Seeking to explore the roots of the high levels of inequality that have persistently characterized Colombian society, the book establishes, from a transdisciplinary approach, the correspondence between the social class structure and the country's economic institutions over the course of the 19th century. Classes, established based on divisions that are established based on the location of the forms of ownership over the means of production and labor relations, in the context of the mode of development, constitute the foundation on which much of of disparities in the economic, social, political and cultural spheres. and they are also the objective foundation that allows the emergence of classes as social actors.

Under this orientation, the book gives an account, in a chronological sequence, of the central features of the "unequal itary" type of primary-export development mode that was instituted in the country and its metamorphosis in the different periods of that century, until its generalized and terminal crisis at the time of the Thousand Days War. It describes, at the same time, the composition of the social class structure and its dynamics, contributing to filling a gap in studies on this field in Colombia. It also illustrates some of the expressions of social and economic inequalities determined by location in social class positions. And, finally, in the coda, it invites a general reflection on the relationship between class structure, mode of development and inequality, based on the results of the case study presented.