Made in Mexico - Regions, Nation, and the State in the Rise of Mexican Industrialism, 1920s–1940s

The experiment with neoliberal market-oriented economic policy in Latin America, popularly known as the Washington Consensus, has run its course. With left-wing and populist regimes now in power in many countries, there is much debate about what direction economic policy should be taking, and there are those who believe that state-led development might be worth trying again. Susan Gausss study of the process by which Mexico transformed from a largely agrarian society into an urban, industrialized one in the two decades following the end of the Revolution is especially timely and may have lessons to offer to policy makers today.

About the author

Susan M. Gauss is Assistant Professor of History and Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY.

Summary

Traces conflicts in Mexico over regional authority and labor-employer relations between the state and competing industrialist and labor groups in Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey, and Puebla from the 1920s to the 1950s.

Product details

• Authors: Susan M. Gauss, Susan M. (Assistant Professor Gauss
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.11.2010
• EAN: 9780271037592
• ISBN: 978-0-271-03759-2
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 594 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; Mexico, Industrial relations, health & safety, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, Political Economy, History of the Americas, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General