Street Democracy - Vendors, Violence, and Public Space in Late Twentieth-Century Mexico

Sandra C. Mendiola García is an assistant professor of history at the University of North Texas.
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List of contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: Prelude to Independent Organizing: Politics and Vendors
Chapter Two: Vendors and Students in the 1970s
Chapter Three: Staging Democracy at Home and Abroad
Chapter Four: The Dirty War on Street Vendors
Chapter Five: From La Victoria to Walmart
Chapter Six: The Struggle Continues
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
 
 

About the author

Sandra C. Mendiola García is an assistant professor of history at the University of North Texas.
 
 
 

Summary

No visitor to Mexico can fail to recognise the omnipresence of street vendors, selling products ranging from fruits and vegetables to prepared food and clothes. In Street Democracy Sandra C. Mendiola García explores the political lives and economic significance of this otherwise overlooked population, focusing on the radical street vendors during the 1970s and 1980s in Puebla.

Product details

• Authors: Sandra C. Mendiola Garcaia, Sandra C Mendiola Garcia, Sandra C. Mendiola Garcia
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2017
• EAN: 9780803269712
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-6971-2
• No. of pages: 294
• Series: The Mexican Experience; The Mexican Experience
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches