Robert F. Alegre

Railroad Radicals in Cold War Mexico (eBook, ePUB)

Gender, Class, and Memory

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Despite the Mexican government's projected image of prosperity and modernity in the years following World War II, workers who felt that Mexico's progress had come at their expense became increasingly discontented. From 1948 to 1958, unelected and often corrupt officials of STFRM, the railroad workers' union, collaborated with the ruling Institutionalized Revolutionary Party (PRI) to freeze wages for the rank and file. In response, members of STFRM staged a series of labor strikes in 1958 and 1959 that inspired a nationwide working-class movement. The Mexican army crushed the last strike on March 26, 1959, and union members discovered that in the context of the Cold War, exercising their constitutional right to organize and strike appeared radical, even subversive.Railroad Radicals in Cold War Mexico examines a pivotal moment in post-World War II Mexican history. The railroad movement reflected the contested process of postwar modernization, which began with workers demanding higher wages at the end of World War II and culminated in the railway strikes of the 1950s, a bold challenge to PRI rule. In addition, Robert F. Alegre gives the wives of the railroad workers a narrative place in this history by incorporating issues of gender identity in his analysis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska Paperback
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496209641
• Artikelnr.: 60865707

Autorenporträt

Robert F. Alegre is an assistant professor of history and affiliated faculty in the Women's and Gender Studies Program at the University of New England. His work has been published in the Journal of Women's History, Labour/Le Travail, and Reviews in History. Elena Poniatowska received a lifetime achievement award from the International Women's Media Foundation and is the first woman to win Mexico's National Journalism Prize.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents:
List of Illustrations
Foreword by Elena Poniatowska
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Map of Mexico
 
Introduction: The Working Class in Cold War Mexico
1. "The Mexican Revolution Was Made on the Rails": Revolutionary
Nationalism, Class Formation, and the Early Impact of the Cold War
2. "Born into the Railway": Patriarchy, Community, and Underground Activism
in the 1950s
3. "Who Is Mr. Nobody?" The Rise of Democratic Unionism
4. The "War of Position": The Making of a Strike
5. Railroaded: The Cold War Idiom in Practice
Conclusion: Rethinking Postwar Working-Class History
 
Notes
Bibliography
Index