Introduction -- The Mexican textile industry: an overview -- CIVSA : the nature of the firm -- The nature of the labor force -- Labor organization during the porfiriato -- Textile workers and the Mexican revolution -- Labor and the first postrevolutionary regimes -- A revolution in work : real...

The author tells the story of people caught between our century and a traditional past. She shows how the high expectations of the new nations were dashed by a harsh conjunction of nature, desperate competition for trade, and the conflict between tradition and modern economic realities. She...