Teacher Unionization and the Corporate State in Mexico, 1931-1945
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2827978 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John A Britton (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 674 |
| Publication date | 1979-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispanic American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2168 • E-ISSN: 1527-1900 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2514069 |
| OpenAlex | W4248650592 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
THE unionization of public schoolteachers was one aspect of the sweeping social and economic changes that occurred in the Mexicaln Revolution. Some students of modern Latin America have looked beyond the origins of such spontaneous worker and peasant movements to emphasize the role of government in the creation of social and economic institutions. Fredrick Pike has suggested that Mexico's President Lazaro Cairdenas (1934-1940) carried out reforms and at the same time built a corporate power structure that absorbed peasant and labor organizations. Once assimilated, these institutions became devices by which the government influenced and perhaps controlled the activities of their members so as to insure political and social stability.' One test case for this hypothesis involves the Mexican teachers' unions which experienced the critical period in their development from 1931 to 1945.2 It is the
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,16 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2021 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |