Popular Mobilization in Mexico - The Teachers'' Movement 197787

Klappentext Explores the process of popular mobilisation in contemporary Mexico through the experience of the country's most important popular organisation. Zusammenfassung This book provides an alternative perspective on Mexican politics by its analysis of the process of popular mobilisation in contemporary Mexico through the experience of the country's most important popular organisation - the teachers' movement. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Glossary of acronyms; Introduction: the character and context of popular mobilization in contemporary Mexico; Part I. Popular Movement and Syndical Struggle: 1. Teachers as political actors; 2. The original impetus; 3. The institutional terrain; Part II. Inside the Movement in Chiapas: 4. Leadership and grass roots; 5. Strategic choices; 6. Factional strife; Part III. National Mobilization and System Responses: 7. Regional movements; 8. Institutional controls; 9. Popular strategies; Part IV. Popular Movements and Political Change: 10. Institutional linkage; 11. The political system; 12. The political meaning of popular movements; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Joe Foweraker, Joe (University of Colorado Foweraker, Foweraker Joe
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.1993
• EAN: 9780521441476
• ISBN: 978-0-521-44147-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Mexico, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, History of the Americas