Deference and Defiance in Monterrey
Subtitle: Workers, Paternalism, and Revolution in Mexico, 18901950 (Cambridge Latin American Studies)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 2, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780521811897
Subjects: American history; Political science & theory; Revolutions & coups; Work & labour; World history: from c 1900 -; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Mexico; Industrial relations; History - General History; History: World; Monterrey; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Latin America - General; History / Modern / 20th Century; History; Working class
First sentence: When General Porfirio Diaz became president in 1876, Monterrey was a city of merchant houses and workshops servicing northeastern Mexico's mining and agricultural economy.
Description: "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."--Jacket.