Global Perspective of Urban Labor in Mexico City, 1910–1929

Name: Global Perspective of Urban Labor in Mexico City, 1910–1929
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

The Global Perspective of Urban Labor in Mexico City, 19101929El Mundo al Revs\nAuthor(s): Stephan Fender\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032083148, 978-1032083148\nSynopsis\nThe Global Perspective of Urban Labor in Mexico City, [tel] examines the global entanglement of the Mexican labor movement during the Mexican Revolution. It describes how global influences made their entry into labor culture through the cinema, the theater, and labor festivals as well as into the development of consumption patterns and advertisement. It further shows how the young labor movement constituted its discourse and invented its tradition at meetings and in the columns of newspapers.\n\nThe local conditions constitute the framework for the examination of Mexican labors perspectives on and engagement with contemporary events of global significance. Thereby, this book demonstrates how workers turned to the global context in search o.