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...

In this sweeping interpretive history of mid-nineteenth-century Chicago, historians John B. Jentz and Richard Schneirov boldly trace the evolution of a modern social order. Combining a mastery of historical and political detail with a sophisticated theoretical frame, Jentz and Schneirov examine...