Revolution within the revolution : cotton textile workers and the Mexican labor regime, 1910-1923.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bortz, Jeff, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Textile workers--Mexico--History.

Textile workers.

Cotton textile industry--Mexico--History.

Cotton textile industry.

Labor policy--Mexico--History.

Labor policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 247 p. )

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Mexico's 1910 revolution ushered in a revolutionary era: during the 20th 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 labour regime and changed the social relations of work.

Contents:

The Mexican cotton textile industry

The layered communities of Mexican cotton textile workers

The beginning of the workers' revolution, 1910-1912

Challenging authority, 1912-1916

The institutionalization of the labor regime : law and government

The institutionalization of the labor regime : unions

Labor conflict in the early institutional period, 1917-1923

The revolution and the labor regime, 1910-1923.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-240) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780804779647

0804779643

OCLC:

1198930632