Mexico City's colorful panaderías (bakeries) have long been
vital neighborhood institutions. They were also crucial sites where
labor, subsistence, and politics collided. From the 1880s well into
the twentieth century, Basque immigrants dominated the bread trade,
to the detriment of small Mexican bakers. By taking us inside the
panadería, into the heart of bread strikes, and through government
halls, Robert Weis reveals why authorities and organized workers
supported the so-called Spanish monopoly in ways that countered the
promises of law and ideology. He tells the gritty story of how
class struggle and the politics of food shaped the state and the
market. More than a book about bread, Bakers and Basques places
food and labor at the center of the upheavals in Mexican history
from independence to the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution.
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