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

by Michael Snodgrass

• ISBN13: 9780511058196
• ISBN10: 0511058195
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2004-12-02
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Summary

Explores how workers both perceived, responded to and helped shape the outcome of Mexico's revolution.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Porfirian progress in -Mexico-s Chicago-

Revolution comes to Monterrey

Work, gender and paternalism at the Cuauht+¼moc brewery

Making steel and forging men at the Fundidora

The democratic principles of our revolution: labor movements and labor law in the 1920s

Every class has its leaders: ASARCO, the Great Depression, and popular protest in Monterrey

Stay with the company or go with the Reds

State your position!: Conservatives, Communists and Cardensimo

The quotas of power: organized labor and the politics of consensus

The persistence of paternalism

The institutionalized revolution

Select Bibliography of primary sources

Index

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