Deference and defiance in Monterrey : workers, paternalism, and revolution in Mexico, 1890-1950 / Michael Snodgrass.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Snodgrass, Michael, author.

Series:

Cambridge Latin American studies ; 88.

Cambridge Latin American studies ; 88

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial relations--Mexico--Monterrey--History.

Industrial relations.

Working class--Mexico--Monterrey--History.

Working class.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 321 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Deference & Defiance in Monterrey

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Porfirian progress in 'Mexico's Chicago'

Revolution comes to Monterrey

Work, paternalism, and gender at the Cuauhte;moc brewery

Making steel and forging men at the Fundidora

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

Quotas of power: organized labor and the politics of consensus

Workers, paternalism, and revolutionary unions

Institutionalized revolution.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-316) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-13272-X

1-280-16112-4

0-511-30699-7

0-511-12029-X

0-511-06452-7

0-511-20418-3

0-511-51205-8

0-511-07298-8

OCLC:

171136365