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Made in Mexico: Regions, Nation, and the State in the Rise of Mexican Industrialism, 1920s-1940s Hardcover - 2010

by Susan M. Gauss


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The experiment with neoliberal market-oriented economic policy in Latin America, popularly known as the Washington Consensus, has run its course. With left-wing and populist regimes now in power in many countries, there is much debate about what direction economic policy should be taking, and there are those who believe that state-led development might be worth trying again. Susan Gauss's study of the process by which Mexico transformed from a largely agrarian society into an urban, industrialized one in the two decades following the end of the Revolution is especially timely and may have lessons to offer to policy makers today.

The image of a strong, centralized corporatist state led by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) from the 1940s conceals what was actually a prolonged, messy process of debate and negotiation among the postrevolutionary state, labor, and regionally based industrial elites to define the nationalist project. Made in Mexico focuses on the distinctive nature of what happened in the four regions studied in detail: Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey, and Puebla. It shows how industrialism enabled recalcitrant elites to maintain a regionally grounded preserve of local authority outside of formal ruling-party institutions, balancing the tensions among centralization, consolidation of growth, and Mexico's deep legacies of regional authority.

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  • Title Made in Mexico: Regions, Nation, and the State in the Rise of Mexican Industrialism, 1920s-1940s
  • Author Susan M. Gauss
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penn State University Press
  • Date 2010-12
  • ISBN 9780271037592 / 0271037598
  • Weight 1.23 lbs (0.56 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.3 x 1 in (23.37 x 16.00 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
    • Cultural Region: Mexican
  • Library of Congress subjects Mexico - Economic policy, Industries - Mexico - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010036084
  • Dewey Decimal Code 338.097

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Susan M. Gauss is Assistant Professor of History and Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY.

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