Workers and Welfare: Comparative Institutional Change in Twentieth-Century Mexico
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After the revolutionary period between 1910 and 1920, Mexico developed a number of social protection programs to support workers in public and private sectors and to establish safeguards for the poor and the aged. These included pensions, healthcare, and workers' compensation. The new welfare programs were the product of a complex interrelationship of corporate, labor, and political actors.
By focusing on organized labor and its powerful role in effecting institutional change, Workers and We...


