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

“Bucking the culturalist trend of much recent Mexican historiography, Gauss gives us an ambitious and cogent analysis of the postrevolutionary political economy, combining a perceptive national overview with illuminating regional case studies, the whole based on extensive original research, lucidly deployed. Among the best recent monographs on modern Mexico, the book sheds light on national politics, state-building, foreign relations, and the role of the PRI, business, and organized labor in forging the new Mexico of the postwar era.”—Alan Knight, University of Oxford

• ContentsAcknowledgmentAbbreviationsIntroduction1.The Politics of State Economic Intervention from the Revolution to the Great Depression2.“Jalisco, Open Your Arms to Industry”: Industrialism and Regional Authority in Guadalajara in the 1930s and 1940s3.The Passion and Rationalization of Mexican Industrialism: Rival Visions of State and Society in the Early 1940s4.Sowing Exclusion: Machinery, Labor, and Industrialist Authority in Puebla in the 1940s5.The Politics of Nationalist Development in Postwar Mexico City6.Recentering the Nation: Industrial Liberty in Postrevolutionary MonterreyConclusionBibliographyIndex

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

“Bucking the culturalist trend of much recent Mexican historiography, Gauss gives us an ambitious and cogent analysis of the postrevolutionary political economy, combining a perceptive national overview with illuminating regional case studies, the whole based on extensive original research, lucidly deployed. Among the best recent monographs on modern Mexico, the book sheds light on national politics, state-building, foreign relations, and the role of the PRI, business, and organized labor in forging the new Mexico of the postwar era.”—Alan Knight, University of Oxford

• ContentsAcknowledgmentAbbreviationsIntroduction1.The Politics of State Economic Intervention from the Revolution to the Great Depression2.“Jalisco, Open Your Arms to Industry”: Industrialism and Regional Authority in Guadalajara in the 1930s and 1940s3.The Passion and Rationalization of Mexican Industrialism: Rival Visions of State and Society in the Early 1940s4.Sowing Exclusion: Machinery, Labor, and Industrialist Authority in Puebla in the 1940s5.The Politics of Nationalist Development in Postwar Mexico City6.Recentering the Nation: Industrial Liberty in Postrevolutionary MonterreyConclusionBibliographyIndex

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

“Bucking the culturalist trend of much recent Mexican historiography, Gauss gives us an ambitious and cogent analysis of the postrevolutionary political economy, combining a perceptive national overview with illuminating regional case studies, the whole based on extensive original research, lucidly deployed. Among the best recent monographs on modern Mexico, the book sheds light on national politics, state-building, foreign relations, and the role of the PRI, business, and organized labor in forging the new Mexico of the postwar era.”—Alan Knight, University of Oxford

• ContentsAcknowledgmentAbbreviationsIntroduction1.The Politics of State Economic Intervention from the Revolution to the Great Depression2.“Jalisco, Open Your Arms to Industry”: Industrialism and Regional Authority in Guadalajara in the 1930s and 1940s3.The Passion and Rationalization of Mexican Industrialism: Rival Visions of State and Society in the Early 1940s4.Sowing Exclusion: Machinery, Labor, and Industrialist Authority in Puebla in the 1940s5.The Politics of Nationalist Development in Postwar Mexico City6.Recentering the Nation: Industrial Liberty in Postrevolutionary MonterreyConclusionBibliographyIndex