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Industry and Revolution - Social and Economic Change in the Orizaba Valley, Mexico (Hardcover, New)
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Industry and Revolution - Social and Economic Change in the Orizaba Valley, Mexico (Hardcover, New)
Series: Harvard Historical Studies
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The Mexican Revolution has long been considered a revolution of
peasants. But Aurora Gomez-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 Gomez-Galvarriato shows,
their consequences proved to be enduring.
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