Mexican Workers and the State: From the Porfiriato to NAFTA

Almost eighty years before the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Ricardo Flores Magón—revolutionary, anarchist, labor organizer and expatriate nationalist—challenged the prevailing social order of both Mexico and the United States. Magón predicted that if Mexican workers failed to organize and shake off the yoke of capitalism, the nation would soon be dominated by foreign economic interests. And American workers, he warned, would find their firms and factori...