Synopses & Reviews
The first comprehensive history of labor 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 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.
Review
"Snodgrass's discussion of identity, masculinity, and revolutionary unionism offers a commendable contribution to the post-revisionist scholarship of twentieth century labor relations, industrialization, and the Mexican Revolution. It will certainly benefit all levels of Latin American scholarship." History
Synopsis
Michael Snodgrass explores how workers and industrialists perceived, responded to and helped determine the outcome of Mexico's revolution over a sixty-year period. His study begins with Monterrey's emergence as one of Latin-America's preeminent industrial cities and home to Mexico's most powerful business group. Snodgrass explores the roots of two distinct and enduring systems of industrial relations that were historical outcomes of the revolution: company paternalism and militant unionism. This book offers an urban and industrial perspective to a history of revolutionary Mexico overshadowed by studies of the countryside.
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-316) and index.
Synopsis
Explores how workers both perceived, responded to and helped shape the outcome of Mexicoâs revolution.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Porfirian progress in âMexicoâs Chicagoâ; 2. Revolution comes to Monterrey; 3. Work, gender and paternalism at the Cuauhtémoc brewery; 4. Making steel and forging men at the Fundidora; 5. The democratic principles of our revolution: labor movements and labor law in the 1920s; 6. Every class has its leaders: ASARCO, the Great Depression, and popular protest in Monterrey; 7. Stay with the company or go with the Reds; 8. State your position!: Conservatives, Communists and Cardensimo; 9. The quotas of power: organized labor and the politics of consensus; 10. The persistence of paternalism; 11. The institutionalized revolution; Select bibliography of primary sources; Index.