Jeffrey Bortz Revolution within the Revolution sku-8467789

Jeffrey Bortz's Revolution within the Revolution: Cotton Textile Workers and the Mexican Labor Regime, 1910-1923 is a hardcover listed under Latin American History Books. It places Mexico's revolution alongside the Russian, Chinese, Cuban, Nicaraguan, and Iranian revolutions that shaped history during the twentieth century.

While historians have often studied the struggle for land in rural Mexico, this book examines cotton textile workers in the country's largest factory industry. Bortz describes how they overturned the old labor regime and changed working relationships. He argues that their struggle created Latin America's most progressive labor regime, including Article 123 of the 1917 Constitution.

The book explains how labor rules became part of Mexico's political system and argues that land reform and the labor regime helped Mexico avoid the revolution and repression experienced elsewhere in Latin America. SKU sku-8467789.