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Book SynopsisAnalyses the interrelationships between Córdoba’s immigrant entrepreneurs, workforce, labour movement, gender relations, and culture on the one hand, and social revolution, modernization, and the Atlantic community on the other between the 1890s and the 1960s.
Trade Review"The author provides a fascinating collective profile of women leaders and their rise from rank and file to a rotating leadership group that controlled union politics for decades."—Susie S. Porter,
Hispanic American Historical Review"Heather Fowler-Salamini has given us a rich and satisfying book on the social and economic contours of coffee processing in the Córdoba district of Veracruz."—Edward Beatty,
Journal of Latin American StudiesTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsList of MapsList of TablesAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. Emergence of a Coffee Commercial Elite in Córdoba, Veracruz2. Work, Gender, and Workshop Culture3. Sorters’ Negotiations with Exporters and the State4. Caciquismo, Organized Labor, and Gender5. Everyday Experiences and Obrera Culture6. Coffee Entrepreneurs, Workers, and the State Confront the Challenges of ModernizationConclusionsNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex
