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

by Michael Snodgrass

• ISBN13: 9780521034791
• ISBN10: 0521034795
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-12-14
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The first comprehensive history of labour relations and the working class in twentieth-century Monterrey, Deference and Defiance explores how both workers and industrialists perceived, responded to and helped shape the outcome of Mexico's revolution. Snodgrass's narrative covers a sixty-year period that begins with Monterrey's emergence as one of Latin-America's pre-eminent industrial cities. He then explores the roots of two distinct and enduring systems of industrial relations that were both historical outcomes of the revolution: company paternalism and militant unionism. By comparing four local industries - steel, beer, glass and smelting - Snodgrass demonstrates how workers and managers collaborated in the development of paternalistic labour regimes that built upon working-class traditions of mutual aid as well as elite resistance to state labour policies. Deference and Defiance in Monterrey thus offers an urban and industrial perspective to a history of revolutionary Mexico that remains overshadowed by studies of the countryside.

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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