Title Vendors' capitalism : a political economy of public markets in Mexico City / Ingrid Bleynat

Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, maps Contents Introduction : market vendors and the history of capitalism in Mexico, 1867-1966 -- Taxes and compassion, 1867-1880 -- A cloak of magnificence over beggars' rags, 1880-1903 -- Vendors, workers, or pueblo? 1903-1928 -- Political experimentation in a time of crises, 1929-1945 -- Vendors' developmentalism, 1945-1966 Summary "Mexico City's public markets were integral to the country's economic development, bolstering the expansion of capitalism from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. These publicly owned and operated markets supplied households with everyday necessities and generated revenue for local authorities. At the same time, they were embedded in a wider network of economic and social relations that gave the vendors who sold in them an influence far beyond the running of their stalls. As they fed the capital's population and fought to protect their own livelihoods, vendors' daily interactions with customers, suppliers and local government shaped the city's public sphere and expanded the scope of popular politics. "Vendors' Capitalism" argues for the centrality of Mexico City's public markets to the political economy of the city from the restoration of the Republic in 1867 to the heyday of the so-called "Mexican miracle" and the PRI in the 1960s. As the sites of vendors' dealings with workers, suppliers, government officials, and politicians, the multiple conflicts that beset them repeatedly tested the institutional capacity of the state. Through a close reading of the archives and an analysis of vendors' intersecting economic and political lives, Ingrid Bleynat considers the dynamics, as well as the limits, of capitalist development in Mexico"-- Provided by publisher Analysis Confederación Nacional de Organizaciones Populares Mexican miracle Mexico Partido Revolucionario Institucional capitalism developmentalism market vendors proprietary mode of production public markets urban politics Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 16, 2021) Subject Markets -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- History Vending stands -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- History Markets -- Government policy -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- History Vending stands -- Government policy -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- History Capitalism -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- History Capitalism Economic history Markets Markets -- Government policy Vending stands HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico. SUBJECT Mexico City (Mexico) -- Economic conditions -- 19th century Mexico City (Mexico) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century Subject Mexico -- Mexico City Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2020050942 ISBN 9781503628304 1503628302

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