Railroad Radicals in Cold War Mexico

"[Railroad Radicals in Cold War Mexico] is a long overdue addition to Mexican labor history that belongs in undergraduate and graduate classrooms everywhere."—Myrna Santiago, American Historical Review

"A fascinating book that provides an original, well-documented perspective on modern Mexico."—A. Vergara, CHOICE

"Railroad Radicals is highly recommended for both scholars and students."—Andrew Paxman, Mexican Studies

"Robert Alegre writes with palpable empathy. He cares for the railway men and women whom he portrays in Railroad Radicals in Cold War Mexico. The result is a thoughtful examination of the lives and times of railroad workers, especially in the years immediately following WorldWar II until the massive strikes that rocked Mexico’s railways in 1958 and 1959. . . . Railroad Radicals in Cold War Mexico is a strong contribution to the historical literature on railway workers, unions, and gender in post–World War II Mexico. The numerous oral histories that Alegre uses are particularly compelling and insightful. A relatively brief book that is clearly written and tackles a myriad of important themes, it would make an excellent classroom text. It definitely belongs on the shelves of historians of twentieth-century Mexico."—J. Justin Castro, Hispanic American Historical Review

“Alegre’s study fills a significant void. . . . An in-depth study of labor activism in the context of Mexico’s Cold War experience is long overdue in the scholarly literature.”—Susan Gauss, associate professor at the University at Albany, SUNY, and author of Made in Mexico: Regions, Nation, and the State in the Rise of Mexican Industrialism, 1920s–1940s

“The railroad movement in Mexico has been the subject of many books, but none as passionately written or meticulously documented as this one.”—from the foreword by Elena Poniatowska