Mexican Workers and the Mexican Labor Movement A History Dan La Botz
Thursdays, 5:30 pm January 28 through April 7, no class February 11
This course will deal with the history of Mexican workers and their
union and political organizations from ancient times until today. The
course will look at the political economy and the organization of work
from indigenous communal organizations in the pre-Columbian period to
the self-organization of workers in the colonial and early
independence periods, through the era of the Porfiriate, the Mexican
Revolution, and into the modern era. We will look at the interaction
between the United States and Mexico and between the U.S. and Mexican
labor movements in the modern era and touch on Mexican immigrant
workers in the United States. The course will be taught through a
combination of lectures, readings, and discussions. Student will read
about one or at most two articles of about 70 pages per week. Dan La
Botz is the author of several books on Mexican labor and social
movements as well as a biography of César Chávez. He was a founding
member of Teamsters for a Democratic Union, later a Socialist Party
candidate in Ohio for the U.S. Senate. He was for 20 years the editor
of Mexican Labor News and Analysis and is currently a co-editor of New
Politics (newpol.org). He was a Fulbright scholar in Mexico and holds
a Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati. Most recently he taught
Comparative Labor, the Latin American Labor Movement, at the Murphy
Institute.
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