Clase obrera urbana en la industria del café: Escogedoras, trilladoras y régimen laboral en Antioquia, 1910-1942

the author analyses an urban working-class population linked to the coffee industry: the sorter women. he studies the group profile from different factors such as age, marital status, and literacy in the medellín working class context; to go then to a deeper study on the municipal threshers of concordia town (in antioquia department) case. he observes its organization and work regime taking into account the different work agents -sorter women, directors, administrators and managers-, and the relationship between the company and the local public administration- representatives and municipal consultative council-. the author describes the company's present organizational structure, its relationship with the public establishment and the coffee trading agencies; following an exposition about the spreading and consolidation process of coffee culture in antioquia, especially in antioquia's southwest; and a concise assessment on historiography related to the zone and the subject matter.