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Informationen zum Autor Robert F. Alegre is an assistant professor of history and affiliated faculty in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the University of New England. His work has been published in the Journal of Women’s History, Labour/Le Travail, and Reviews in History. Elena Poniatowska received a lifetime achievement award from the International Women’s Media Foundation and is the first woman to win Mexico’s National Journalism Prize. Klappentext "An in-depth study of railroad labor activism in the context of Mexico's Cold War experience"-- "Alegre's study fills a significant void . . . . An in depth study of labor activism in the context of Mexico's Cold War experience is long overdue in the scholarly literature."--Susan Gauss, associate professor at SUNY, Albany, and author of "Made in Mexico: Regions, Nation, and the State in the Rise of Mexican Industrialism, 1920s-1940s" --Susan Gauss"Susan Gauss" (05/28/2013) Zusammenfassung Examines a pivotal moment in post-World War II Mexican history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents:List of IllustrationsForeword by Elena PoniatowskaAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsMap of Mexico Introduction: The Working Class in Cold War Mexico1. "The Mexican Revolution Was Made on the Rails": Revolutionary Nationalism, Class Formation, and the Early Impact of the Cold War2. "Born into the Railway": Patriarchy, Community, and Underground Activism in the 1950s3. "Who Is Mr. Nobody?" The Rise of Democratic Unionism4. The "War of Position": The Making of a Strike5. Railroaded: The Cold War Idiom in PracticeConclusion: Rethinking Postwar Working-Class History NotesBibliographyIndex
