A Peaceful and Working People: Manners, Morals, and Class Formation in Northern Mexico

by William E. French

The mining boom that began in northern Mexico in the 1890s set in motion fundamental social change. On the one hand it uprooted many workers, and the concerns of government officials, middle-class, reformers, and company managers coalesced into laws and programs to control the restless masses. But changes in the mining economy and political culture also precipitated class consciousness among merchants and artisans as well as skilled and unskilled...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826345816
• ISBN13: 9780826345813
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"