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

by Michael Snodgrass

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521034791
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	12/14/2006
Series:	Cambridge Latin American Studies , #88
Edition description:	1ST
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.75(d)

Table of Contents

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.

Editorial Reviews

"...this well-written and impeccably researched study contributes significantly to international labor, urban, and Mexican political history." American Historical Review

"Snodgrass's discussion of identity, masculinity, and revolutionary unionism offers a commendable contribution to the post-revisionist scholarship of twentieth century labor relations, industrialization, and the Mexican Revolution. It will certainly benefit all levels of Latin American scholarship." History

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