Control y disciplina de los campesinos en México: Del porfiriato al cardenismo
Ciudad de México: Universidad Autónoma de Metropolitana-Unidad Xochimilco, División de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Consejo Editorial, 2021. First Edition. Paperback. 355p., bibl., indices, wrps. New. Item #78774
ISBN: 9786072824010
During the Porfiriato, the modernization policies of the country and the promotion of export agro-industries had as a correlate the restructuring of the domestication techniques of the common people. This work aims to show that public policies towards the rural sector at the beginning of the twentieth century entailed a biopolitical aspect understood as a set of institutional principles of body discipline, population organization and change of mentalities. It is possible to see in the measures adopted at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century the most immediate origin of a strategy decidedly oriented towards the control of rural populations through their administrative domination by the State, their economic submission to a boss authority and, for those who "needed" it, their re-education through work. For their part, the farmers had within their reach possibilities of resisting (more or less effective and risky depending on the case), using their experimental knowledge of the weak points of the system that oppressed them. Whether the enslaved peon or the ejidatario recently endowed with a parcel, field workers and their families were generally on the lookout for employment and institutional opportunities to improve their lot. Also, what we document is a historical process of consolidation of state power closely related to the desire to change the mentality of the lower classes. using their experimental knowledge of the weak points of the system that oppressed them. Whether the enslaved peon or the ejidatario recently endowed with a parcel, field workers and their families were generally on the lookout for employment and institutional opportunities to improve their lot. Also, what we document is a historical process of consolidation of state power closely related to the desire to change the mentality of the lower classes. using their experimental knowledge of the weak points of the system that oppressed them. Whether the enslaved peon or the ejidatario recently endowed with a parcel, field workers and their families were generally on the lookout for employment and institutional opportunities to improve their lot. Also, what we document is a historical process of consolidation of state power closely related to the desire to change the mentality of the lower classes.
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