The orthodox view of Mexican history asserts that the political
stability and rapid economic growth of the post-war period were due
inter alia to state control over the labour movement. On the
evidence of his extensive research in Mexico between 1977 and 1982,
Ian Roxborough challenges this conventional wisdom, arguing that
control over Mexican unions has been more fragile and problematic
than appears at first sight. Taking the car industry as a case
study, he discusses the upsurge of industrial militancy in the
1970s and explores its possible implications for continued
political stability. Focusing on variations in the factory-level
organisations of the working class, the account in this book
de-emphasises theories which stress class consciousness or which
focus on the aristocracy of labour, in favour of a theory that
places political and organisational power at the centre of
analysis. This study of the grass roots of industrial militancy
will have relevance not only for the study of contemporary Mexico
but also for general explanations of the politics of labour in the
Third World.
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