Redeeming the Revolution

"Lenti's account illustrates the selectivity of labor-friendly legislation by showing how patriarchal ideas structure who is seen as a unionized worker or as a breadwinner. Redeeming the Revolution therefore makes visible the gendered divisions among unionized workers."—Alejandra Gonzalez-Jimenez, Latin American Research Review

"Lenti's study makes important contributions to labor studies and post-1940 Mexican history in anticipation of the fiftieth anniversary of the Tlatelolco massacre."—Alexander Aviña, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

“An important new book that every Mexican historian should read. Joseph Lenti has delved deeply into the archives to document the vitality of the Mexican labor movement for much of the twentieth century [as well as] its weaknesses.”—John Mason Hart, John and Rebecca Moores Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Houston and author of Empire and Revolution: The Americans in Mexico since the Civil War

“Pathbreaking. Joseph Lenti challenges previous interpretations of Mexican authoritarianism and suggests a multiplicity of ways that workers negotiated their relationship with the state and shaped the course of modern Mexican history. Redeeming the Revolution will help students of Mexican politics and labor history rethink prior assumptions.”—Gregory S. Crider, professor and chair of the Department of History at Winthrop University