Revolution Within the Revolution

by Bortz, Jeff

• ISBN13: 9780804758062
• ISBN10: 0804758069
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-04-30
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

Summary

Mexico's revolution of 1910 ushered in a revolutionary era: during the twentieth century, Mexican, Russian, Chinese, Cuban, Nicaraguan, and Iranian revolutions shaped local, regional, and world history. Because Mexico was at the time a rural and agrarian country, it is not surprising that historians have concentrated on the revolution in the countryside where the rural underclass fought for land. This book uncovers a previously unknown workers' revolution within the broader revolution. Working in Mexico's largest factory industry, cotton textile operatives fought their own fight, one that challenged and overthrew the old labor regime and changed the social relations of work. Their struggle created the most progressive labor regime in Latin America, including but not limited to the famous Article 123 of the 1917 Constitution.Revolution within the Revolutionanalyzes the rules of labor and explains how they became a pillar of the country's political system. Through the rest of the twentieth century, Mexico's land reform and revolutionary labor regime allowed it to avoid the revolution and repression experienced elsewhere in Latin America.

Author Biography

Jeffrey Bortz has taught at Appalachian State University since 1989.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The Mexican Cotton Textile Industry	p. 21
The Layered Communities of Mexican Cotton Textile Workers	p. 49
The Beginning of the Workers' Revolution, 1910-1912	p. 83
Challenging Authority, 1912-1916	p. 113
The Institutionalization of the Labor Regime: Law and Government	p. 133
The Institutionalization of the Labor Regime: Unions	p. 150
Labor Conflict in the Early Institutional Period, 1917-1923	p. 169
The Revolution and the Labor Regime, 1910-1923	p. 187
Abbreviations, Archives, and Newspapers	p. 205
Notes	p. 207
Index	p. 241
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