Made in Mexico
Regions, Nation, and the State in the Rise of Mexican Industrialism, 1920s–1940s
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Made in Mexico
Regions, Nation, and the State in the Rise of Mexican Industrialism, 1920s–1940s
About this book
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 of what happened in the four regions studied in detail: Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey, and Puebla. It shows how industrialism enabled recalcitrant elites to maintain a regionally grounded preserve of local authority outside of formal ruling-party institutions, balancing the tensions among centralization, consolidation of growth, and Mexico's deep legacies of regional authority.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Politics of State Economic Intervention From The Revolution To The Great Depression
- Chapter 2: "Jalisco, Open Your Arms To Industry"
- Chapter 3: The Passion and Rationalization of Mexican Industrialism
- Chapter 4: Sowing Exclusion
- Chapter 5: The Politics of Nationalist Development in Postwar Mexico City
- Chapter 6: Recentering The Nation
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Page