The Paradox of Revolution: Labor, the State, and Authoritarianism in Mexico - Softcover

Middlebrook, Kevin J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801851483 ISBN 13: 9780801851483

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995

Synopsis

This important interdisciplinary work makes original contributions to the study of the state-society relations in Latin America and to the comparative analysis of labor's role in regime change. Middlebrook's theoretical framework identifies the principal dimensions of elite control over mass participation in postrevolutionary authoritarian regimes and highlights the most important aspects of Mexican authoritarianism. By demonstrating organized labor's central importance in the formation and evolution of Mexico's distinctive authoritarian regime, Middlebrook also lays the basis for a major reinterpretation of key features of twentieth-century Mexican politics.

"Any scholar interested in Latin American social and political questions over the last one hundred years will sooner or later read this book. Mexicanists worth their salt will read it as soon as they can get it. The scholarship is outstandingly sound. It is rigorous in conceptualization and analysis, and in the historical parts as good as the best histories of Mexican labor and politics."―John Womack Jr., Harvard University

About this title

About the Author:

Kevin J. Middlebrook is Director of Research at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California―San Diego.

Review:

Masterful... The most important work on post-revolutionary Mexican labor in English and essential reading for understanding twentieth-century Mexican politics.

(Jonathan Fox Latin American Research Review)

About this edition

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0801851483
• ISBN 13: 9780801851483
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 392