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Michael Snodgrass explores how workers and industrialists perceived, responded to and helped determine the outcome of Mexico's revolution over a sixty-year period.His study begins with Monterrey's emergence as one of Latin-America's preeminent industrial cities and home to Mexico's most powerful business group. Snodgrass explores the roots of two distinct and enduring systems of industrial relations that were historical outcomes of the revolution: company paternalism and militant unionism.This book offers an urban and industrial perspective to a history of revolutionary Mexico overshadowed by studies of the countryside. ... Read more

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Michael Snodgrass explores how workers and industrialists perceived, responded to and helped determine the outcome of Mexico's revolution over a sixty-year period.His study begins with Monterrey's emergence as one of Latin-America's preeminent industrial cities and home to Mexico's most powerful business group. Snodgrass explores the roots of two distinct and enduring systems of industrial relations that were historical outcomes of the revolution: company paternalism and militant unionism.This book offers an urban and industrial perspective to a history of revolutionary Mexico overshadowed by studies of the countryside. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Industrial Revolution Reference Library, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 793 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The Industrial Revolution transformed much of the world from simple agricultural society into a complex industrial society. This reference covers the ideas and social turmoil that marked this transition as well as the machines, manufacturing processes and energy sources that spurred it on. Also includes biographical profiles. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Industrial Revolution Reference Library, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 1106 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The Industrial Revolution transformed much of the world from simple agricultural society into a complex industrial society. This reference covers the ideas and social turmoil that marked this transition as well as the machines, manufacturing processes and energy sources that spurred it on. Also includes biographical profiles. ... Read more

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Taking the Hard Road is an engaging history of growing up in working-class families in France and Germany during the Industrial Revolution. Based on a reading of ninety autobiographical accounts of childhood and adolescence, the book explores the far-reaching historical transformations associated with the emergence of modern industrial capitalism. According to Mary Jo Maynes, the aspects of private life revealed in these accounts played an important role in historical development by actively shaping the authors' social, political, and class identities.

The stories told in these memoirs revolve around details of everyday life: schooling, parent-child relations, adolescent sexuality, early experiences in the workforce, and religious observances. Maynes uses demographics, family history, and literary analysis to place these details within the context of historical change. She also draws comparisons between French and German texts, men's and women's accounts, and narratives of social mobility and political militancy. ... Read more

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Taking the Hard Road
The experiences of working class men and women are a crucial part of the historiography of the Industrial Age. Industrialization brought rapid change to the continent of Europe, and forever altered both the way that people lived, and the way in which they viewed themselves. To explain this, author Mary Jo Maynes has collected and analyzed dozens of memoirs and autobiographies of French and German workers spanning from the 18th to the early 20th century. As Maynes describes, the autobiography was a relatively new concept at this time, brought about by the Enlightenment principles which emphasized individual personalities. The accounts are widely varied, but there are certain recurring themes which persist throughout. Such hardships as child labor, parental death or abandonment, and social alienation were common to most accounts. Harsh discipline, both at home and at school also left its mark on many of the authors. Of course, this is not to mention the excruciating work regimen that most workers had to endure. Many of the accounts were written by socialist militants (or those would later become such) and reflect a justification for their adoption of these radical views. "Their accounts simultaneously recorded and contributed to the construction of class identities." Maynes analyzes the differences in experience not only between French and Germans, but also between men and women, both often being significant. All in all, this is a very informative work which gives great insight into the lives of the working class of the Industrial Age. ... Read more

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This new book examines the social protests of popular groups in urban Mexico during and after the Mexican Revolution and also shows how the revolution inspired women to become activists in these movements. Andrew Grant Wood’s well-researched narrative focuses specifically on the complex negotiation between elites and popular groups over the issue of public housing in post-revolutionary Veracruz, Mexico.Wood then compares the Veracruz experience with other tenant movements throughout Mexico and Latin America.He analyzes what the popular groups wanted, what they got, how they got it, and how the changes wrought by the revolution facilitated their actions.Grassroots organizing by house-renters in Veracruz began at a time of “multiple sovereignty” when ruling elites found themselves in a process of regime change and political realignment.As the movement took shape, tenants expanded their opportunities through a dynamic repertoire of public demonstration, direct action, networking, and constant negotiation with landlords and public officials.During the height of the movement, protesters forced revolutionary elites to respond by requiring them either to negotiate, co-opt, and/or repress members of independent grassroots organizations in order to maintain their rule.The tenant movements demonstrate how ordinary women and men contributed to the remaking of state and civil society relations in post-revolutionary Mexico.Revolution in the Street analyzes the critical roles that women played as leaders and as rank-and-file agitators to keep the movements alive.The author has used a wide variety of primary sources to provide a vibrant portrayal of these urban social protesters.On a larger scale, this book shows that the voices of the urban poor were able to become part of the revolutionary dialogue and ideology.While others have highlighted the role of rural folk such as the Zapatistas, this work allows readers to appreciate the urban side of the popular movement.Revolution in the Street is a valuable resource on the Mexican Revolution, modern Mexico, and urban history of Latin America. ... Read more

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Historical novel set at the beginning of the 19th century, during violent worker protests against the mechanization of the Industrial Revolution.The Preface begins: "The beginning of the present century, glorious as it was for British arms abroad, was a dark time to those who lived by their daily labor at home. The heavy taxation entailed by the war, the injury to trade, and the enormous prices of food, all pressed heavily upon the working classes. The invention of improved machinery, vast as has been the increase of trade which it has brought about, at first pressed heavily upon the hand workers, who assigned all their distress to the new inventions. Hence a movement arose, which did
much damage and for a time threatened to be extremely formidable." According to Wikipedia: "George Alfred Henty (8 December 1832 - 16 November 1902), referred to as G. A. Henty, was a prolific English novelist, special correspondent, and Imperialist born in Trumpington, Cambridgeshire, England. He is best known for his historical adventure stories that were popular in the late 19th century. His works include Out on the Pampas (1871), The Young Buglers (1880), With Clive in India (1884) and Wulf the Saxon (1895)." ... Read more

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Conquered: the enemy within
This book deviates from the most frequent pattern of G. A. Henty's books.Usually his heroes are in the midst of a historical time, are well acquainted with some of the leading figures of the day, emerge victorious from their conflicts, and come to be known and admired due to their courage, honesty, and wholesome character.This book is set in the Luddite Riots at the beginning of the industrial revolution in the early 1800s.However, even though Ned Sankey behaves with distinction in these affairs, the main battle of the book is with his own temper.

Left to the care of his ayahs in India during his early childhood, Ned was wont to give way to his passionate temper to get his way.He learned to control it under his father's hand after the family relocated to England, but he still gave way under severe provocation.From the beginning of the book, Ned has the reader's sympathies as he struggles to do what is right, and take his schoolmaster's abuse quietly.We approve of his valor in a fair fight against an older boy, as well as his kindness to him afterwards.Ned's anger erupts in a few incidents, one of which leads his mother, the town and the authorities to believe him guilty of a heinous crime, although he was entirely innocent.He was acquitted at his trial, but most believed it was only because there was not enough evidence to convict.In the end, the true criminal is exposed and Ned's character is redeemed.Through this all, Ned learned the disastrous results of an uncontrolled temper, and we are told that he was always the master of himself ever after.I only wish that his father and counselors, when encouraging him to do right, had shown him the strength available in Christ, rather than appealing to his manhood.

I really enjoyed this book, certainly more than others by Henty, probably because the enemy to be conquered was not a foreign foe, but self, the enemy we are born to battle.Henty's skill in weaving a story is almost more apparent in this book, as he gives so much information on the Luddites and their conditions, information I'd never heard.He blends this so well - better than in some of his other works, in my opinion - with the drama in Ned's personal life.Perhaps because of this, there is never a dull moment in the book.I found no areas that seemed easier to skim, and there are no long passages of pure history dropped into the story.The history is always enjoyable, but in this book, it is blended so well, that the historical facts will be picked up effortlessly while enjoying the tale.Recommended! ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Industrial Revolution Reference Library, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 3014 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The Industrial Revolution transformed much of the world from simple agricultural society into a complex industrial society. This reference covers the ideas and social turmoil that marked this transition as well as the machines, manufacturing processes and energy sources that spurred it on. Also includes biographical profiles. ... Read more

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Challenging the claim that workers supported Stalin's revolution "from above" as well as the assumption that working-class opposition to a workers' state was impossible, Jeffrey Rossman shows how a crucial segment of the Soviet population opposed the authorities during the critical industrializing period of the First Five-Year Plan.

Marshaling an impressive range of archival evidence, Rossman recounts in vivid detail myriad individual and collective acts of protest, including mass demonstrations, food riots, strikes, slowdowns, violent attacks against officials, and subversive letters to the authorities. Male and female workers in one of Russia's oldest, largest, and "reddest" manufacturing centers--the textile plants of the Ivanovo Industrial Region--actively resisted Stalinist policies that consigned them to poverty, illness, and hunger.

In April 1932, 20,000 mill workers across the region participated in a wave of strikes. Seeing the event as a rebuke to his leadership, Stalin dispatched Lazar Kaganovich to quash the rebellion, resulting in bloodshed and repression. Moscow was forced to respond to the crisis on the nation's shop floors with a series of important reforms.

Rossman uncovers a new dimension to the relationship between the Soviet leadership and working class and makes an important contribution to the debate about the nature of resistance to the Stalinist regime.