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Redeeming the revolution : the state and organized labor in post-Tlatelolco Mexico / Joseph U Lenti

By: Language: eng Series: Mexican experiencePublication details: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2017Description: 355 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781496200495
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.972
LOC classification:
  • JC 497  L574r 2017
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1. Tlatelolco!: The Need for Revolutionary Redemption -- 2. On the Redeemer's Trail: Luis Echeverria and the Campaign of the Revolution -- 3. "The Government of the Republic Thus Pays Its Debt": "Mexicanizing" the National Patrimony -- 4. Restoring the Revolutionary Corpus: Unity, Class, and Paternalism in Tripartite Relations -- 5. "Anos de Huelga": Business and State-Organized Labor Conflict in Monterrey, 1973 -- 74 -- 6. "The False Redemption of May 1": Testing the State's Alleged Preference for Organized Labor -- 7. "Beautiful Little Companeras" and "Shameful Spectacles": Gender Complementarity in the Workers' Movement -- 8. "Yes This Fist Is Felt!": The Independentista Challenge and Repression -- 9. "The Mexican [Redeemer] Never Asks for Forgiveness!": Sectoral Friction in the Late Echeverria Presidency.
Summary: "A tale of sin and redemption, this book demonstrates how the killing of hundreds of student protestors in Mexico City's Tlatelolco district on October 2-3, 1968, sparked a crisis of legitimacy that moved Mexican political leaders to reestablish their revolutionary credentials with the working class, a sector only tangentially connected to the bloodbath. State-allied labor groups hence became darlings of public policy in the post-Tlatelolco period, and with the implementation of the New Federal Labor Law of 1970, the historical symbiotic relationship of the government and organized labor was restored. Renewing old bonds with trusted allies such as the Confederation of Mexican Workers bore fruit for the regime, yet the road to redemption was fraught with peril during this era of Cold War and class contestation. While Luis Echeverria, Fidel Velazquez, and other officials appeased union brass with discourses of revolutionary populism and policies that challenged business leaders, conflicts emerged, and repression ensued when rank-and-file workers criticized the chasm between rhetoric and reality and tested their leaders' limits of toleration." --
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Machine generated contents note: 1. Tlatelolco!: The Need for Revolutionary Redemption --
2. On the Redeemer's Trail: Luis Echeverria and the Campaign of the Revolution --
3. "The Government of the Republic Thus Pays Its Debt": "Mexicanizing" the National Patrimony --
4. Restoring the Revolutionary Corpus: Unity, Class, and Paternalism in Tripartite Relations --
5. "Anos de Huelga": Business and State-Organized Labor Conflict in Monterrey, 1973 --
74 --
6. "The False Redemption of May 1": Testing the State's Alleged Preference for Organized Labor --
7. "Beautiful Little Companeras" and "Shameful Spectacles": Gender Complementarity in the Workers' Movement --
8. "Yes This Fist Is Felt!": The Independentista Challenge and Repression --
9. "The Mexican [Redeemer] Never Asks for Forgiveness!": Sectoral Friction in the Late Echeverria Presidency.


"A tale of sin and redemption, this book demonstrates how the killing of hundreds of student protestors in Mexico City's Tlatelolco district on October 2-3, 1968, sparked a crisis of legitimacy that moved Mexican political leaders to reestablish their revolutionary credentials with the working class, a sector only tangentially connected to the bloodbath. State-allied labor groups hence became darlings of public policy in the post-Tlatelolco period, and with the implementation of the New Federal Labor Law of 1970, the historical symbiotic relationship of the government and organized labor was restored. Renewing old bonds with trusted allies such as the Confederation of Mexican Workers bore fruit for the regime, yet the road to redemption was fraught with peril during this era of Cold War and class contestation. While Luis Echeverria, Fidel Velazquez, and other officials appeased union brass with discourses of revolutionary populism and policies that challenged business leaders, conflicts emerged, and repression ensued when rank-and-file workers criticized the chasm between rhetoric and reality and tested their leaders' limits of toleration." --

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