DEFERENCE AND DEFIANCE IN MONTERREY by Michael Snodgrass ( 9780511512056 )

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Title:

DEFERENCE AND DEFIANCE IN MONTERREY
WORKERS, PATERNALISM, AND REVOLUTION IN MEXICO, 1890-1950

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ISBN 10:

0511512058

ISBN 13:

9780511512056

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

19 August, 2009

Series:

Cambridge Latin American Studies 88

Description:

This book explores how workers both perceived, responded to and helped shape the outcome of Mexico's revolution.

Synopsis:

The first comprehensive history of labour relations and the working class in twentieth-century Monterrey, Deference and Defiance 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 pre-eminent industrial cities. 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 labour regimes that built upon working-class traditions of mutual aid as well as elite resistance to state labour 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.

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Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

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