Of Paradoxes, Dilemmas, and Comparisons: Essays in Honor of Kevin Middlebrook

Paulo Drinot is a Professor of Latin American history at University College London. He studied at LSE and Oxford and has authored several books on Peru, including The Allure of Labor (2011) and Los años de Leguía (2024). He was co-editor of the Journal of Latin American Studies and has received major research fellowships, including from the Leverhulme Trust.Par Engstrom (BA UCL, MSc London, DPhil Oxford) is Associate Professor of Human Rights at the Institute of the Americas, University College London, and Vice-Dean (Impact) at UCL’s Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences. He has held visiting positions at PSIA (Sciences-Po) and the University of São Paulo and worked with OHCHR, FCDO, and ABColombia.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I - Mexico’s Exceptional Political Regimes: Chapter 2: ‘The Paradox of Revolution’: State and Organized Labor in Mexico in the Twentieth Century.- Chapter 3: Equal Pay for Equal Work and the Failure of Patriarchy in Revolutionary Mexico.- Chapter 4: A Brief Survey of the Past Half Century of Political Evolution in Mexico.- Part II - Militaries and Conservative Political Parties in Mexico and Beyond: Chapter 5: Civilian Government and Militarized Development: Lessons from Mexico.- Chapter 6: Becoming the ‘Vanguard’ of Revolution: The Armed Forces and Politics in Velasco’s Peru and Chávez’s Venezuela.- Chapter 7: Middlebrook Revisited: Conservative Parties and Political Representation in Latin America.- Part III - US-Mexican Relations: Labor and Trade Agreements: Chapter 8: The USMCA and Mexican Labor: The Intersection of Domestic Politics, International Rights and National Sovereignty.- Chapter 9: Five Years after Institutional Change in the World of Work: Overview and Trade Union Perspectives in the Mexican Automotive Industry.- Chapter 10: Thirty Years after NAFTA: T-MEC, Can This Time Be Different? Reshoring, Value-Chains, and the Up-Scaling of Mexico’s Development.