Revolution within the Revolution: Cotton Textile Workers and the Mexican Labor Regime, 1910-1923

摘要

Jeffrey Bortz argues that the overthrow of the Porfirian state allowed cotton textile workers to unleash a social revolution in the mills by seizing control over the factory floor, forming unions, allying with revolutionary leaders and generating a pro-labour regime. Workers' consciousness and actions constituted labour radicalism, formed through their experiences on the job, without orientation from socialism, anarchism or the dynamics of a moral economy. Bortz's conclusions, clearly argued and documented, demonstrate the importance of textile workers in the revolutionary process.