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The mining boom that began in northern Mexico in the 1890s set in motion fundamental social change. On the one hand it uprooted many workers, and the concerns of government officials, middle-class, reformers, and company managers coalesced into laws and programs to control the restless masses. But changes in the mining economy and political culture also precipitated class consciousness among merchants and artisans as well as skilled and unskilled workers. This study of the Hidalgo mining district in Chihuahua from the 1890s to the 1920s examines class formation, in particular its relation to social control, popular values, and pre-industrial traditions. In arguing that class identity stemmed less from the nature of ones work than from the beliefs one held, this work brings together the disparate themes of moral economy of mine workers, new mining technology, and the management policy of mine owners during the Mexican Revolution.
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A Peaceful and Working People : Manners, Morals, and Class Formation in Northern Mexico
author
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French, William E.
publisher
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University of New Mexico
isbn10 | asin
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0826316832
print isbn13
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9780826316837
ebook isbn13
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9780585161624
language
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English
subject
Social classes--Mexico--Chihuahua (State)--History, Working class--Mexico--Chihuahua (State)--History, Middle class--Mexico--Chihuahua (State)--History, Social values--Mexico--Chihuahua (State)--History.
publication date
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1996
lcc
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HN120.S6F74 1996eb
ddc
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305.5/0972/16
subject
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Social classes--Mexico--Chihuahua (State)--History, Working class--Mexico--Chihuahua (State)--History, Middle class--Mexico--Chihuahua (State)--History, Social values--Mexico--Chihuahua (State)--History.
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A Peaceful and Working People
Page ii
"La Familia" by Jos Clemente Orozco. (Photo courtesy of the New School for Social Research.)
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A Peaceful and Working People
Manners, Morals, and Class Formation in Northern Mexico
William E. French
University of New Mexico Press Albuquerque
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Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data French, William E., 1956 . A peaceful and working people: manners, morals, and class formation in northern Mexico / William E. French.1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8263-1683-2 1. Social classesMexicoChihuahua (State)History. 2. Working classMexicoChihuahua (State)History. 3. Middle classMexicoChihuahua (State)History. 4. Social valuesMexicoChihuahua (State)History. I. Title. HN120.S6F74 1996 305.5'0972'16dc20 95-32446 CIP
1996 by the University of New Mexico Press All rights reserved. First edition
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Contents
Tables and Maps
vi
Acknowledgments
vii
Introduction
3
1. Ways of Working
13
2. Managers and the Inculcation of the Capitalist Work Ethic
35
3. Moralizing the Masses
63
4. Prostitutes and Guardian Angels: Women, Work, and the Family
87
5. Forced Progress: Workers and the Developmentalist Ideology
109
6. The Great Awakening: Mine Workers, Companies, and the Mexican Revolution
141
7. "Honorable" Workers and "Evil" Reactionaries: Mining in the Early 1920s
173
Conclusion
181
Appendix
187
Notes
189
Bibliography
245
Index
257
About the Book and Author
263
Page vi
Tables
2.1 Monthly Contribution to Sustain Cuerpo de Polica
57
5.1 Miners within the Jurisdiction of Santa Brbara
113
5.2 Meat and Bread Prices in Hidalgo District Municipalities
116
Maps
1. Chihuahua, by District, 1910
8
2. Hidalgo District
10
Page vii
Acknowledgments
While this acknowledgment reads a little like the story of my life, I, nevertheless, want to take this opportunity to thank many people. The journey that eventually resulted in this book began at the University of Calgary, where a fine program in Latin American history kindled my interest in Mexico. Since that time, I have enjoyed the friendship and encouragement of Chris Archer and Herman Konrad; a timely suggestion by Graham Knox helped me decide my future. I am thankful for their support and that I often find myself back in Calgary.
At the University of Texas at Austin I accumulated many debts, both personal and academic. In their respective seminars, Richard Graham helped show me what history could be about while Dr. Nettie Lee Benson provided an unsurpassed example of passionate commitment to the study of Mexico. I can think of no one I would rather have had supervise my dissertation than Alan Knight, and I am grateful for his quick responses and insightful comments on my work at that stage. I also thank the staff of the Benson Latin American Collection, an institution that seemed like a home away from home for a number of years. Above all, though, my greatest debt is to those with whom I lived the experience of graduate schoolespecially Frank de la Teja and Jos Fernndez. I miss our conversations.
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