The Calesa Vote: Street Politics and Local Governance in 1930s to 1940s Manila

• Main Author: Pante, Michael D
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2022
• Subjects: Urban transportation; working classes; colonialism; democracy; elections; populism; Arts and Humanities; Asian History; History; Political History; South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/history-faculty-pubs/108; https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/859045
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

The cocheros (drivers of horse-drawn vehicles) of early twentieth-century Manila posed an interesting paradox in the theatre of populist politics. By the 1930s they were among the most economically deprived occupational group, as their carromatas and calesas (horse-drawn vehicles) struggled to compe...