Joseph U. Lenti

Redeeming the Revolution (eBook, ePUB)

The State and Organized Labor in Post-Tlatelolco Mexico

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Produktbeschreibung

A tale of sin and redemption, Joseph U. Lenti's Redeeming the Revolution demonstrates how the killing of hundreds of student protestors in Mexico City's Tlatelolco district on October 2-3, 1968, sparked a crisis of legitimacy that moved Mexican political leaders to reestablish their revolutionary credentials with the working class, a sector only tangentially connected to the bloodbath. State-allied labor groups hence became darlings of public policy in the post-Tlatelolco period, and with the implementation of the New Federal Labor Law of 1970, the historical symbiotic relationship of the government and organized labor was restored. Renewing old bonds with trusted allies such as the Confederation of Mexican Workers bore fruit for the regime, yet the road to redemption was fraught with peril during this era of Cold War and class contestation. While Luis Echeverría, Fidel Velázquez, and other officials appeased union brass with discourses of revolutionary populism and policies that challenged business leaders, conflicts emerged, and repression ensued when rank-and-file workers criticized the chasm between rhetoric and reality and tested their leaders' limits of toleration.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496201331
• Artikelnr.: 48679422

Autorenporträt

Joseph U. Lenti is an assistant professor of Latin American history at Eastern Washington University.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: A Revolution to Redeem the Nation
1. Tlatelolco!: The Need for Revolutionary Redemption
2. On the Redeemer’s Trail: Luis Echeverría and the Campaign of the
Revolution
3. “The Government of the Republic Thus Pays Its Debt”: “Mexicanizing” the
National Patrimony
4. Restoring the Revolutionary Corpus: Unity, Class, and Paternalism in
Tripartite Relations
5. “Años de Huelga”: Business and State-Organized Labor Conflict in
Monterrey, 1973–74
6. “The False Redemption of May 1”: Testing the State’s Alleged Preference
for Organized Labor
7. “Beautiful Little Compañeras” and “Shameful Spectacles”: Gender
Complementarity in the Workers’ Movement
8. “Yes This Fist Is Felt!”: The Independentista Challenge and Repression
9. “The Mexican [Redeemer] Never Asks for Forgiveness!”: Sectoral Friction
in the Late Echeverría Presidency
Conclusion: The Revolution Redeemed (But for Whom?)
Epilogue: Death and Resurrection
Notes
Bibliography
Index