Contents
Acknowledgment
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The Politics of State Economic Intervention from the Revolution to the Great Depression
2. “Jalisco, Open Your Arms to Industry”: Industrialism and Regional Authority in
Guadalajara in the 1930s and 1940s
3. The Passion and Rationalization of Mexican Industrialism: Rival Visions of State
and Society in the Early 1940s
4. Sowing Exclusion: Machinery, Labor, and Industrialist Authority in Puebla in the 1940s
5. The Politics of Nationalist Development in Postwar Mexico City
6. Recentering the Nation: Industrial Liberty in Postrevolutionary Monterrey
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Susan M. Gauss is Assistant Professor of History and Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY.
“Bucking the culturalist trend of much recent Mexican
historiography, Gauss gives us an ambitious and cogent analysis of
the postrevolutionary political economy, combining a perceptive
national overview with illuminating regional case studies, the
whole based on extensive original research, lucidly deployed. Among
the best recent monographs on modern Mexico, the book sheds light
on national politics, state-building, foreign relations, and the
role of the PRI, business, and organized labor in forging the new
Mexico of the postwar era.”—Alan Knight, University of Oxford
“The strength of [Made in Mexico] is the author’s research in the
state archives of Jalisco, Nuevo Léon, and Puebla. Gauss constructs
the history of relations among the economic elites of the three
main industrial areas outside the capital (Guadalajara, Monterrey,
and Puebla), the state governments, and the central government in
Mexico City. . . . The author is quite adept at sorting out the
complex relations between the various levels of government and the
three groups of regional industrialists, showing how they tied into
the shifting politics and economic exigencies of the era.”—Mark
Wasserman American Historical Review
“Made in Mexico is a very important book that fills a number of
gaps in the literature on postrevolutionary Mexico by tracing the
national and regional development of the country's industrial
sector. The book, which explores the conflicts among industrialists
and labor leaders as well as state and federal policy makers over
statist industrialism, is well written, thoroughly researched, and
rests firmly on materials from Mexico City’s national depositories
as well as the state archives of Jalisco, Nuevo León, and
Puebla.”—John J. Dwyer Hispanic American Historical Review
“The relationship between state, capital and labour has a seminal
place within the scholarship of Latin America’s statist political
economy. Made in Mexico adds the dynamic variable of regionalism to
the literature, which provides an important revision to traditional
understandings of the Mexican case. . . . Gauss’s important study .
. . illustrates how divergent industrial sectors and their
particular histories of capital formation, from textiles to
glass-making, generated Mexico’s many paths toward statism.”—Glen
David Kuecker Bulletin of Latin American Research
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