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...

Acknowledgements -- Foreword / by John Callow -- Introductory comment / by John Marriott -- Author's preface -- Prologue: Wednesday 11 September 1889 -- Introduction to a forgotten struggle -- Samuel Silver's palace of industry -- Great sacrifice, great barbarism -- A time of hope -- "They want...