Industrial workers, not just peasants, played an essential role in the Mexican Revolution. Tracing the introduction of mechanized industry into the Orizaba Valley, Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato argues convincingly that the revolution cannot be understood apart from the Industrial Revolution, and...

Main description: The obrajes, or native textile manufactories, were primary agents of developing capitalism in colonial Mexico. Drawing on previously unknown or unexplored archival sources, Richard Salvucci uses standard economic theory and simple measurement to analyze the obraje and its...

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Mexican Textile Industry: An Overview -- 2. CIVSA: The Nature of the Firm -- 3. The Nature of the Labor Force -- 4. Labor Organization during the Porfiriato -- 5. Textile Workers and the Mexican Revolution -- 6. Labor and the First Postrevolutionary...