Resumen de La condición urbana de la clase obrera en el Distrito Federal
This document propose that the tendencies pointing towards the social homogenization do no t exclude the cultural heterogeneity and it five as a result the social heterogeneity that the life in the city tends to hide in an apparent urban homogeneity. To this effect, the fact is that difference forms of life of the working class from the northern part of México City is brought, and gives place to the differentiated urban condition (situation which is ignored when generalizations are made about social groups o entire societies, and that have to be rethought). Nieto Calleja sets three questions: Are there ways or forms of life, views of the world or properly named urban cultures and industrial ones?; Which is the weight of modernity and traditions on them?; and, What results from this encounter? To answer theses questions. Nieto Calleja analyses traditional proletary suburbs and habitation complexes with a high concentration of working class populations (al of them in the Azcapotzalco Jurisdiction), where he observes that different urban niches (at the same city) mark the working class with a particular condition and that their cultural and urban practices are not homogeneous: on the contrary, they depend upon the age group, the kind of settlement they live in, the gender and the experience of urban life in the last generation
