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Industry and revolution : social and economic change in the Orizaba Valley, Mexico /

Industrial workers, not just peasants, played an essential role in the Mexican Revolution. Tracing the introduction of mechanized industry into the Orizaba Valley, Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato argues convincingly that the revolution cannot be understood apart from the Industrial Revolution, and thus pr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gómez Galvarriato, Aurora
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013.
Colección:Harvard historical studies ; v. 182.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The Mexican textile industry: an overview
  • CIVSA : the nature of the firm
  • The nature of the labor force
  • Labor organization during the porfiriato
  • Textile workers and the Mexican revolution
  • Labor and the first postrevolutionary regimes
  • A revolution in work : real wages and working hours
  • A revolution in daily life : community and living conditions in the mill towns
  • The impact of the Mexican revolution on CIVSA's performance
  • Conclusion
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Archives and periodicals consulted
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index.