![]() | Industry and Revolution: Social and Economic Change in the Orizaba Valley, Mexico Subjects: Textile workers -- Mexico -- Orizaba (Veracruz-Llave) -- History -- 19th century; Textile workers -- Mexico -- Orizaba (Veracruz-Llave) -- History -- 20th century; Textile industry -- Mexico -- Orizaba (Veracruz-Llave) -- History -- 19th century; Textile; The Mexican Revolution has long been considered a revolution of peasants. But Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato's investigation of the mill towns of the Orizaba Valley reveals that industrial workers played a neglected but essential role in shaping the Revolution. By tracing the introduction of mechanized industry into the valley, she connects the social and economic upheaval unleashed by new communication, transportation, and production technologies to the political unrest of the revolutionary decade. Industry and Revolution makes a convincing argument that the Mexican Revolution cannot be understood apart from the changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution, and thus provides a fresh perspective on both transformations. Gómez-Galvarriato Aurora : Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato is Professor of Economic History at CIDE (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas) and head of the Archivo General de la Nación de México, Mexico's national public records office. |
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