Baring it all for Activism
The 1985 Naked Protest in Mexico
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3817399 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sandra C Mendiola García (University of North Texas USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 337-351 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of Latin American Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0261-3050 • E-ISSN: 1470-9856 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/blar.13107 |
| OpenAlex | W3129093999 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
This article analyses the 1985 naked protest carried out by silver miners of Pachuca, Mexico. This singular form of resistance, the first in Mexican labour history and organised by a dissident group within the miners' union called Liberación Minera (Miners Liberation), forced management to recognise and temporarily solve some of the miners' grievances. The naked protest unveiled the shady practices of the miners' employer, the state-owned Compañía Real del Monte y Pachuca, which refused to provide work clothes and safety equipment to miners. It also pointed to the miners' union leadership's complicity in the deterioration of labour conditions. Part of the miners' naked protest success had to do with the support that they gained from members of the left-wing press who used the protest to offer an early critique of Mexico's neoliberal policies. The 1985 naked protest occurred during one of Mexico's most severe economic crises and only four years before the company became privatised. This protest is one of the last examples of organised labour resistance before industries closed down and fired thousands of workers
Complicity · Economic history · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · State (computer science · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
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| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |