The Making of a Strike: Mexican Silver Workers' Struggles in Real del Monte 1766-1775 by Doris M Ladd - 1988

x+205 pages with bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's black cloth with silver lettering to spine in original jacket. First edition. Doris Ladd offers a path-breaking and systematic analysis of a crucial period and its events. The subject studied is of considerable importance to the field of Mexican history overall, and the findings of this work will have a significant impact on the field of Mexican labor history and on our understanding of late colonial Mexico. In the summer of 1766, Mexican silver miners of Real del Monte, about a hundred kilometers north of Mexico City, rebelled against the wage cuts being extracted from pay and partido. Without a labor union of a political ideology, the organized the first strike in North America. Doris M Ladd tells the story of their astonishing triumph in this work. It is the first social history dealing with labor in colonial Mexico. Condition: Jacket points and spine ends rubbed and lightly chipped else a better than very good copy in like jacket.