Mexico: Labor Movement
(see also Mexico: Revolution, Mexico: Consolidation, Mexico: PRI Regime, Mexico since 2000, Mexico: US Border, Mexico: Women, Mexico: La Capital, Mexico: Oil Industry)
Basics
On the Web: Articles
On the Web: Specialized Sites
Frente Auténtico del Trabajo (FAT). Independent trade union federation.
In the Library: Articles
Ashby, Joe C. "Labor & the theory of the Mexican Revolution under Lázaro Cárdenas," The Americas 20,2 (1963):158-99.
Bortz, Jeffrey. "The genesis of the Mexican labor relations system: federal labor policy & the textile industry, 1925-1940," The Americas 52,1 (7/95):43-69.
Camacho, Manuel. "Control sobre el movimiento obrero en México" & "La huelga de Saltillo: un intento de regenaración obrera," in Centro de Estudios Internacionales, Lecturas de política mexicana (México: Colegio de México, 1977), pp. 229-69 & 271-321.
Campos Aragón, Leticia. "La política laboral de Lázaro Cárdenas," in F. Carmona (coord.) Vigencia del cardenismo (México, 1990), pp. 101-32.
Douglas, Dorothy W. "Land & labor in Mexico," Science & Society 14,2 (spr 1940):127-52. Good for demise of CROM, rise of CTM in united front era.
Durand Ponte, Victor Manuel. "La descomposición política del lombardismo," in Loyola (coord.) Entre la guerra y la estabilidad política (México, 1990), pp. 163-92.
Imaz, Cecilia. "Participación social y lucha de clases en la década 1930-1940," Revista Mexicana de Sociología 38,1 (1-3/76):149-63.
Jones, Chester Lloyd. "If Lewis sits down in Mexico," American Scholar 6,4 (fall 37):471-80. Interesting appreciation of CTM leader Lombardo Toledano in form of an imaginary interview with US United Mine Workers' leader John L. Lewis.
Middlebrook, Kevin J. "The sounds of silence: organized labor's response to the economic crisis in Mexico," Journal of Latin American Studies 21 (5/89):195-220.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Anguiano, Arturo. El Estado y la política obrera del cardenismo (México: Era, 1975).
Ashby, Joe C. Organized Labor & the Mexican Revolution under Lázaro Cárdenas (Chapel Hill: U. of North Carolina, 1967).
Basurto, Jorge. Cárdenas y el poder sindical (México, 1983).
Caulfield, Norman. Mexican Workers & the State: from the Porfiriato to NAFTA (College Station: Texas A&M, 1998).
Chapoy Bonifaz, Dolores Beatriz. El movimiento obrero y el sindicato en México (México, 1961).
Chassen de López, Francie R. Lombardo Toledano y el movimiento obrero mexicano (1917-1940) (México: Extemporaneos, 1977).
Clark, Marjorie R. Organized Labor in Mexico (Chapel Hill: U. of North Carolina, 1934). Still useful for early period.
Collier, Ruth Berins. The Contradictory Alliance: State-Labor Relations & Regime Change in Mexico (Berkeley: U. of California, 1994).
Confederación de Trabajadores de México (CTM). La Confederación de Trabajadores de México, 1936-1941 (México, 1942). Official history of critical period.
Davis, Charles L. Working-Class Mobilization & Political Control: Venezuela & Mexico (Lexington: U. of Kentucky, 1991).
de la Cerda Silva, Roberto. El movimiento obrero en México (México: UNAM, 1961).
Garza B., Luis Lauro. Cristal quebrado: testimonio de un vidriero regiomontano (México: Siglo XXI, 1988). Trade unionist memoir.
La Botz, Dan. The Crisis of Mexican Labor (NY, 1988).
__________. The Mask of Democracy: Labor Suppression in Mexico Today (Boston: South End, 1992).
Middlebrook, K.J. Unions, Workers & the State in Mexico (La Jolla: U. of California, San Diego, 1991).
__________. The Paradox of Revolution: Labor, the State, & Authoritarianism in Mexico (Baltimore, 1995).
Novelo, Victoria (comp.) Historia y cultura obrera (México, 1999).
Trejo Delarbre, Raúl. Crónica del sindicalismo en México (1976-1988) (México, 1990).
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CD & Audio
Film & Video
"Made on Rails: A History of the Mexican Railroad Workers" [1988], dir. John Mraz, 40m. From Cinema Guild. Combative history of their union since 1920s.