Industry and Revolution : Social and Economic Change in the Orizaba Valley, Mexico / Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato.
Gómez-Galvarriato, Aurora, author.
2013
HD8039.T42
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Title Industry and Revolution : Social and Economic Change in the Orizaba Valley, Mexico / Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato.
Author Gómez-Galvarriato, Aurora, author.
ISBN 9780674074330
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674074330
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2013
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (361 p.) : 4 halftones, 2 maps, 15 graphs, 14 tables
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/harvard.9780674074330 doi
Call Number HD8039.T42
Dewey Decimal Classification 338.476770097262
Summary The Mexican Revolution has long been considered a revolution of peasants. But Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato's investigation of the mill towns of the Orizaba Valley reveals that industrial workers played a neglected but essential role in shaping the Revolution. By tracing the introduction of mechanized industry into the valley, she connects the social and economic upheaval unleashed by new communication, transportation, and production technologies to the political unrest of the revolutionary decade. Industry and Revolution makes a convincing argument that the Mexican Revolution cannot be understood apart from the changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution, and thus provides a fresh perspective on both transformations. By organizing collectively on a wide scale, the spinners and weavers of the Orizaba Valley, along with other factory workers throughout Mexico, substantially improved their living and working conditions and fought to secure social and civil rights and reforms. Their campaigns fed the imaginations of the masses. The Constitution of 1917, which embodied the core ideals of the Mexican Revolution, bore the stamp of the industrial workers' influence. Their organizations grew powerful enough to recast the relationship between labor and capital, not only in the towns of the valley, but throughout the entire nation. The story of the Orizaba Valley offers insight into the interconnections between the social, political, and economic history of modern Mexico. The forces unleashed by the Mexican and the Industrial revolutions remade the face of the nation and, as Gómez-Galvarriato shows, their consequences proved to be enduring.
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Series Harvard Historical Studies ; 182
In E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2013
E-BOOK PACKAGE HISTORY, POLITICAL SCIENCE, SOCIOLOGY 2013
E-BOOK PAKET GESCHICHTE, POLITIKWISS., SOZIOLOGIE 2013
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Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
CHAPTER 1. The Mexican Textile Industry
Chapter 2. CIVSA
Chapter 3. The Nature of the Labor Force
Chapter 4. Labor Organization during the Porfiriato
Chapter 5. Textile Workers and the Mexican Revolution
Chapter 6. Labor and the First Postrevolutionary Regimes
Chapter 7. A Revolution in Work
Chapter 8. A Revolution in Daily Life
Chapter 9. The Impact of the Mexican Revolution on CIVSA's Performance
Conclusion
Abbreviations
Notes
Archives and Periodicals Consulted
Acknowledgments
Index

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