Workers, Neighbors, and Citizens: The Revolution in Mexico City - Couverture rigide

Lear, John

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0803229364 ISBN 13 : 9780803229365

Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2001

Synopsis

"Workers, Neighbors, and Citizens" examines the mobilization of workers and the urban poor in Mexico City from the eve of the 1910 revolution through the early 1920s, producing for the first time a nuanced illumination of groups that have long been discounted by historians. John Lear addresses a basic paradox: During one of the great social upheavals of the twentieth century, urban workers and masses had a limited military role, yet they emerged from the revolution with considerable combativeness and a new significance in the power structure. Lear identifies a significant and largely underestimated tradition of resistance and independent organization among working people that resulted in part from the changes in the structure of class and community in Mexico City during the last decades of Porfirio Diaz's rule (1876-1910). This tradition of resistance helped to join skilled workers and the urban poor as they embraced organizational opportunities and faced crises in wages and access to food and housing as the revolution escalated. Emblematic of these ties was the role of women in political agitation, street mobilizations, strikes, and riots. Lear suggests that the prominence of labor after the revolution was neither a product of opportunism nor one of revolutionary consciousness, but rather the result of the ongoing organizational efforts and cultural transformations of working people that coincided with the revolution. John Lear is an associate professor of history and Latin American studies at the University of Puget Sound and coauthor of "Chile's Free-Market Miracle: A Second Look".

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Nebraska Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0803229364
• ISBN 13: 9780803229365
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 441
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