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Author Snodgrass, Michael.

Title Deference and defiance in Monterrey : workers, paternalism, and revolution in Mexico, 1890-1950 / Michael Snodgrass
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 321 pages)
Series Cambridge Latin American studies ; 88
Cambridge Latin American studies ; 88.
Contents Porfirian progress in "Mexico's Chicago" -- Revolution comes to Monterrey -- Work, gender, and paternalism at the Cuauhtémoc Brewery -- Making steel and forging men at the Fundidora -- The democratic principles of our revolution : labor movements and labor law in the 1920s -- Every class has its leaders : ASARCO, The Great Depression, and popular protest in Monterrey -- Stay with the company or go with the Reds -- State your position! : conservatives, communists, and Cardenismo -- The quotas of power: organized labor and the politics of consensus -- The persistence of paternalism -- The institutionalized revolution
Summary "The first comprehensive history of labor relations and the working class in twentieth century Monterrey, Deference and Defiance in Monterrey explores how both workers and industrialists perceived, responded to, and helped shape the outcome of Mexico's revolution. Snodgrass's narrative covers a sixty-year period that begins with Monterrey's emergence as one of Latin America's preeminent industrial cities and home to Mexico's most powerful business group. He then explores the roots of two distinct and enduring systems of industrial relations that were both historical outcomes of the revolution: company paternalism and militant unionism. By comparing four local industries--steel, beer, glass, and smelting--Snodgrass demonstrates how workers and managers collaborated in the development of paternalistic labor regimes that built upon working-class traditions of mutual aid as well as elite resistance to state labor policies. Deference and Defiance in Monterrey thus offers an urban and industrial perspective to a history of revolutionary Mexico that remains overshadowed by studies of the countryside."--Publisher's description
Analysis Relaciones laborales México Monterrey Historia
Trabajadores México Monterrey Historia
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-316) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Industrial relations -- Mexico -- Monterrey -- History
Working class -- Mexico -- Monterrey -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Industrial relations.
Working class.
Mexico -- Monterrey.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
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