Heather Fowler-Salamini is a professor emerita of Latin American history at Bradley University. She is the author of Agrarian Radicalism in Veracruz, 1920–1938 (Nebraska, 1978) and the editor (with Mary Kay Vaughan) of Women of the Mexican Countryside, 1850–1990: Creating Spaces, Shaping Transition.

"The author provides a fascinating collective profile of women leaders and their rise from rank and file to a rotating leadership group that controlled union politics for decades."-Susie S. Porter, Hispanic American Historical Review "Heather Fowler-Salamini has given us a rich and satisfying book on the social and economic contours of coffee processing in the CÓrdoba district of Veracruz."-Edward Beatty, Journal of Latin American Studies

• List of IllustrationsList of MapsList of TablesAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. Emergence of a Coffee Commercial Elite in CÓrdoba, Veracruz2. Work, Gender, and Workshop Culture3. Sorters’ Negotiations with Exporters and the State4. Caciquismo, Organized Labor, and Gender5. Everyday Experiences and Obrera Culture6. Coffee Entrepreneurs, Workers, and the State Confront the Challenges of ModernizationConclusionsNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex

Heather Fowler-Salamini is a professor emerita of Latin American history at Bradley University. She is the author of Agrarian Radicalism in Veracruz, 1920–1938 (Nebraska, 1978) and the editor (with Mary Kay Vaughan) of Women of the Mexican Countryside, 1850–1990: Creating Spaces, Shaping Transition.

"The author provides a fascinating collective profile of women leaders and their rise from rank and file to a rotating leadership group that controlled union politics for decades."-Susie S. Porter, Hispanic American Historical Review "Heather Fowler-Salamini has given us a rich and satisfying book on the social and economic contours of coffee processing in the CÓrdoba district of Veracruz."-Edward Beatty, Journal of Latin American Studies

• List of IllustrationsList of MapsList of TablesAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. Emergence of a Coffee Commercial Elite in CÓrdoba, Veracruz2. Work, Gender, and Workshop Culture3. Sorters’ Negotiations with Exporters and the State4. Caciquismo, Organized Labor, and Gender5. Everyday Experiences and Obrera Culture6. Coffee Entrepreneurs, Workers, and the State Confront the Challenges of ModernizationConclusionsNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex

Heather Fowler-Salamini is a professor emerita of Latin American history at Bradley University. She is the author of Agrarian Radicalism in Veracruz, 1920–1938 (Nebraska, 1978) and the editor (with Mary Kay Vaughan) of Women of the Mexican Countryside, 1850–1990: Creating Spaces, Shaping Transition.

"The author provides a fascinating collective profile of women leaders and their rise from rank and file to a rotating leadership group that controlled union politics for decades."-Susie S. Porter, Hispanic American Historical Review "Heather Fowler-Salamini has given us a rich and satisfying book on the social and economic contours of coffee processing in the CÓrdoba district of Veracruz."-Edward Beatty, Journal of Latin American Studies

• List of IllustrationsList of MapsList of TablesAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. Emergence of a Coffee Commercial Elite in CÓrdoba, Veracruz2. Work, Gender, and Workshop Culture3. Sorters’ Negotiations with Exporters and the State4. Caciquismo, Organized Labor, and Gender5. Everyday Experiences and Obrera Culture6. Coffee Entrepreneurs, Workers, and the State Confront the Challenges of ModernizationConclusionsNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex