When looking at the consequences of the Mexican Revolution from the perspective of Orizaba textile milis, it is clear that its major impact was a substantial transformation in the relative power of workers and employers ...

As in other parts of the world, in Mexico, the coming of modern transportation and communications and technological changes in manufacturing machinery brought about during the late 19th century major changes in the production ...

The study of the company stores of the Orizaba textile mills during the Porfiriato departs from the traditional view on Porfirian company stores. It indicates that workers were not fully paid in script but received an ...

Este ensayo argumenta que a partir de mediados de los ochenta se ha dado un cambio sustancial en la historiografía sobre industria e industrialización del Porfiriato a la Revolución. El trabajo explica que la nueva ...

Este trabajo estudia la evolución de la participación laboral de las mujeres en la industria en México en el siglo XX. Se encuentra una relación en forma de U entre ingreso per cápita y participación laboral en el sector ...

Do countries need a large menu of organizational forms? Does the flexibility of a larger organizational menu provide advantages for businesses? This paper explores these questions by studying the choice of organizational ...

Recent history give us evidence of the different timing and results of the opening up of several economies. When and why do governments open up their economies, and why do domestic firms survive or not to the opening up ...

In this paper we study the impact that the Mexican Revolution had on Mexico’s economy by looking at the effects of political instability on the public finances and the relationship of the government and its foreign creditors. ...

This paper compares prices, costs, and productivity levels c.1911 of a Mexican textile mil with those of mills in the United States and Great Britain and studies the evolution of textile tariff protection. Surprisingly by ...

The Mexican and Spanish economies diverged in the second part of the 20th Century. This process can only be explained if we take into account long term structural causes, short term policy issues and even fortunate and ...