Title: The Mexican petroleum industry in the twentieth century /
Authors: Brown, Jonathan C. 1942-; Knight, Alan, 1946-
Publisher: University of Texas Press,
Year: 1992
Subjects: Petroleum industry and trade Mexico History Congresses.
Abstract: Mexico's Petroleum Industry has come to symbolize the very sovereignty of the nation itself. Politicians criticize Pemex, the national oil company, at their peril, and President Salinas de Gortari has made clear that the free trade negotiations between Mexico and the United States will not affect Pemex's basic status as a public enterprise. How and why did the petroleum industry gain such prominence - and, some might say, immunity - within Mexico's political economy? The.
Contents: The structure of the foreign-owned petroleum industry in Mexico, 1880-1938 / Jonathan C. Brown -- The cultural roots of the Oil Workers' Unions in Tampico, 1910-1925 / S. Lief Adleson -- The rise and fall of union democracy at Poza Rica, 1932-1940 / Alberto J. Olvera -- The politics of the expropriation / Alan Knight -- Worker participation in the administration of the petroleum industry, 1938-1940 / Ruth Adler -- The expropriation and Great Britain / Lorenzo Meyer -- The expropriation and Great Britain / Lorenzo Meyer -- The expropriation in comparative perspective / George Philip -- Technical and economic problems of the newly nationalized industry / Fabio Barbosa Cano -- The consolidation and expansion of Pemex, 1947-1958 / Isidro Morales -- Pemex during the 1960s and the crisis in self-sufficiency / Isidro Morales -- The oil industry and Mexico's relations with the industrial powers / Gabriel Székely.