Deference and Defiance in Monterrey: Workers, Paternalism, and Revolution in Mexico, 1890–1950

ISBN-13: 9780521811897 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 334 str.

Indiana) Michael Snodgrass (Purdue University

Opis

Michael Snodgrass explores how workers and industrialists perceived, responded to and helped determine the outcome of Mexico's revolution over a sixty-year period. His study begins with Monterrey's emergence as one of Latin-America's preeminent industrial cities and home to Mexico's most powerful business group. Snodgrass explores the roots of two distinct and enduring systems of industrial relations that were historical outcomes of the revolution: company paternalism and militant unionism. This book offers an urban and industrial perspective to a history of revolutionary Mexico overshadowed by studies of the countryside.

Recenzje

'Snodgrass's greatest contribution to the literature of the Mexican revolution and working class history is that: the careful and thoughtful examination of those who did not rebel or rebelled but only for a little while.' The European Legacy

Spis treści

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Porfirian progress in 'Mexico's Chicago'; 2. Revolution comes to Monterrey; 3. Work, gender and paternalism at the Cuauhtémoc brewery; 4. Making steel and forging men at the Fundidora; 5. The democratic principles of our revolution: labor movements and labor law in the 1920s; 6. Every class has its leaders: ASARCO, the Great Depression, and popular protest in Monterrey; 7. Stay with the company or go with the Reds; 8. State your position!: Conservatives, Communists and Cardensimo; 9. The quotas of power: organized labor and the politics of consensus; 10. The persistence of paternalism; 11. The institutionalized revolution; Select bibliography of primary sources; Index.