Description
Book SynopsisThis book is a history of the Mexican workers' revolution that took place within the larger Mexican revolution of 1910.
Trade Review"Bortz's
Revolution within the Revolution has the virtue of synthesizing dependency theory, new institutional economic history, and new cultural history, which is no small achievement." -- William Schell Jr. *
Business History Review *
"Jeffrey Bortz's study of textile workers in the revolution is a welcome and important contribution to this new historiography . . . No study of textile workers to date is as sweeping and systematic in its coverage, analysis and broader claims. And while this book draws from an ambitious variety of national, state and municipal archives, it is a very assignable length, well-organized and written in vigorous and often elegant prose." -- John Lear *
A Contra Corriente *
"Bortz reinterprets the history of labor in such a way as to restore to workers their 'rightful' place in the history of revolutionary and post-revolutionary Mexico. He seeks no less than to turn the history of the Revolution on its head. The book will create a lively debate among labor historians of Latin America." -- Mark Wasserman * Rutgers University *
"Bortz's carefully crafted study of textile workers will likely remain the standard book on the topic for years to come." -- Michael J. Gonzales *
Journal of Latin American Studies *
"In the finest sense, Bortz has written a working-class history from the bottom up . . . Bortz's powerfully argued work, based on extensive research in national and local archives, union and company papers, and contemporary newspapers, stands as the definitive labor history of the textile industry in those crucial years surrounding the Mexican revolution . . . [I]t is one of the finest studies of Mexican labor to date, in part because the author challenges so much of what we thought we knew about that era and workers' role in it. In short, Bortz has written an audacious and challenging book that all Mexicanists and most labor historians need to read." -- Rod Anderson * Florida State University,
Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas *
Table of ContentsContents Preface and Acknowledgements ix Abbreviations, Archives, and Newspapers 000 1. Introduction 000 2. The Mexican Cotton Textile Industry 000 3. The Layered Communities of Mexican Cotton Textile Workers 000 4. The Beginning of the Workers Revolution, 1910-1912 000 5. Challenging Authority, 1912-1916 000 6. The Institutionalization of the Labor Regime: Law and Government 000 7. The Institutionalization of the Labor Regime: Unions 000 8. Labor Conflict in the Early Institutional Period, 1917-1923 000 9. The Revolution and the Labor Regime, 1910-1923 000 Notes 000 Index 000
