Deference and Defiance in Monterrey - Workers, Paternalism, and Revolution in Mexico, 1890–1950

Deference and Defiance explores how both workers and industrialists perceived, responded to and helped shape the outcome of Mexico's revolution. Snodgrass's narrative covers a sixty-year period that begins with Monterrey's emergence as one of Latin-America's pre-eminent industrial cities and home to Mexico's most powerful business group.