Made in Mexico: Regions, Nation, and the State in the Rise of Mexican Industrialism, 1920s–1940s - Couverture souple

Gauss, Susan M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0271037601 ISBN 13 : 9780271037608

Editeur : The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010

Synopsis

The experiment with neoliberal market-oriented economic policy in Latin America, popularly known as the Washington Consensus, has run its course. With left-wing and populist regimes now in power in many countries, there is much debate about what direction economic policy should be taking, and there are those who believe that state-led development might be worth trying again. Susan Gauss’s study of the process by which Mexico transformed from a largely agrarian society into an urban, industrialized one in the two decades following the end of the Revolution is especially timely and may have lessons to offer to policy makers today. The image of a strong, centralized corporatist state led by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) from the 1940s conceals what was actually a prolonged, messy process of debate and negotiation among the postrevolutionary state, labor, and regionally based industrial elites to define the nationalist project. Made in Mexico focuses on the distinctive nature of what happened in the four regions studied in detail: Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey, and Puebla. It shows how industrialism enabled recalcitrant elites to maintain a regionally grounded preserve of local authority outside of formal ruling-party institutions, balancing the tensions among centralization, consolidation of growth, and Mexico’s deep legacies of regional authority.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Susan M. Gauss is Assistant Professor of History and Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Pennsylvania State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0271037601
• ISBN 13: 9780271037608
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne