Railroad Radicals in Cold War Mexico: Gender, Class, and Memory

Contents

Contents List of Illustrations viii Foreword by Elena Poniatowska ix Acknowledgments xiii List of Abbreviations xix Map of Mexico xx Introduction: The Working Class in Cold War Mexico 1 1. “The Mexican Revolution Was Made on the Rails”: Revolutionary Nationalism, Class Formation, and the Early Impact of the Cold War 23 2. “Born into the Railway”: Patriarchy, Community, and Underground Activism in the 1950s 65 3. “Who Is Mr. Nobody?”: The Rise of Democratic Unionism 102 4. The “War of Position”: The Making of a Strike 141 5. Railroaded: The Cold War Idiom in Practice 176 Conclusion: Rethinking Postwar Working-Class History 215 Notes 225 Bibliography 255 Index 267 ...