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Railroad Radicals in Cold War Mexico: Gender, Class, and Memory

Railroad Radicals in Cold War Mexico: Gender, Class, and Memory

Alegre, Robert F.
Poniatowska, Elena

Paperback

Series: Mexican Experience

General World HistoryMexican HistorySocial Movements

ISBN10: 0803244843
ISBN13: 9780803244849
Publisher: Univ Of Nebraska Pr
Published: Jan 1 2014
Pages: 270
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Despite the Mexican government's projected image of prosperity and modernity in the years following World War II, workers who felt that Mexico's progress had come at their expense became increasingly discontented. From 1948 to 1958, unelected and often corrupt officials of STFRM, the railroad workers' union, collaborated with the ruling Institutionalized Revolutionary Party (PRI) to freeze wages for the rank and file. In response, members of STFRM staged a series of labor strikes in 1958 and 1959 that inspired a nationwide working-class movement. The Mexican army crushed the last strike on March 26, 1959, and union members discovered that in the context of the Cold War, exercising their constitutional right to organize and strike appeared radical, even subversive.

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