Made in Mexico: Regions, Nation, and the State in the Rise of Mexican Industrialism, 1920s–1940s (Regions, Nation, and the State in the Rise of Mexican Industrialism, 1920s–1940s) by Gauss, Susan M

Penn State University Press, 2010. Soft cover. Very good/No jacket. Cover is shelf worn but otherwise in great condition with no other visible flaws. Binding is tight and inside is clean and unmakred.

New. The experiment with neoliberal market-oriented economic policy in Latin America, popularly known as the Washington Consensus, has run its course. With left-wing and populist regimes now in power in many countries, there is much debate about what direction economic policy should be taking, and there are those who believe that state-led development might be worth trying again. Susan Gauss's study of the process by which Mexico transformed from a largely agrarian society into an urban, industrialized one in the two decades following the end of the Revolution is especially timely and may have lessons to offer to policy makers today. The image of a strong, centralized corporatist state led by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) from the 1940s conceals what was actually a prolonged, messy process of debate and negotiation among the postrevolutionary state, labor, and regionally based industrial elites to define the nationalist project. Made in Mexico focuses on the distinctive nature… Read More

The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011. Paperback. New. 304 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.75 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. Traces conflicts in Mexico over regional authority and labor-employer relations between the state and competing industrialist and labor groups in Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey, and Puebla from the 1920s to the 1950s.

The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011. Paperback. New. 304 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.75 inches.

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