HIST 3659 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Economic Security, National Oil Company, Ethnocide
Document Summary
Rise of the state on the left or the right was an element of the great depression. Is rallying the people with an us against them mentality. Lost autonomy and independence because they were integrated. Worker control of factories would allow workers to organise. The state would become a democracy through organised sectors. Sense that the state will take care of its struggling people. Most mexicans were waiting for their land distribution. Tried to provided credit and infrastructure to uplift the countryside. Giant cotton farm because of access to river system. Mexican cotton lost market in u. s. because of depression. Workers began to organise unions with help of the mexican communist party. Memory of agrarian reform was a failed project and is remembered as such. Never enough land to give out to people. Kept rural mexicans in mexico by making the migration to the u. s. cyclical. Effort to remove the control of the church over mexicans thought.
