University of Nebraska Press
Street Democracy: Vendors, Violence, and Public Space in Late Twentieth-Century Mexico
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- Sandra C Mendiola Garcia
- University of Nebraska Press
- Paperback
- 9780803269712
- 9 X 6 X 0.66 inches
- 0.95 pounds
- Business & Economics > Industries - Retailing
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
In Street Democracy Sandra C. Mendiola Garc�a explores the political lives and economic significance of this otherwise overlooked population, focusing on the radical street vendors during the 1970s and 1980s in Puebla, Mexico's fourth-largest city. She shows how the Popular Union of Street Vendors challenged the ruling party's ability to control unions and local authorities' power to regulate the use of public space. Since vendors could not strike or stop production like workers in the formal economy, they devised innovative and alternative strategies to protect their right to make a living in public spaces. By examining the political activism and historical relationship of street vendors to the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), Mendiola Garc�a offers insights into grassroots organizing, the Mexican Dirty War, and the politics of urban renewal, issues that remain at the core of street vendors' experience even today.
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