Organized Labor in Latin America, 1850-1960. Historical Case Studies on Workers in Dependent Societies. By Hobart A. SpaldingJr, . (New York: New York University Press, 1977. Pp. xv, 297. Index. $15.00 cloth; $5.95 paper.)

1979 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 287-288
Author(s):  
William J. Fleming
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Organized Labor ◽  
New York University ◽  
Historical Case ◽  
Historical Case Studies

Introduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Matthew D. O'Hara
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Colonial Mexico ◽  
Historical Case ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Historical Method ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Relationship

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the analysis of time experience and futuremaking through historical case studies in colonial Mexico. Colonial Mexico developed a culture of innovation, human aspiration, and futuremaking that was subsequently forgotten in part because it did not fit with later definitions of modernity and innovation as secular phenomena and things untethered to the past or tradition. This choice of historical method and topics is driven by a desire to step outside some of the dominant paradigms in the study of Latin America and colonialism in general. Examining the relationship between past, present, and future offers a way to reconsider Mexico's colonial era, its subsequent historical development, and how people have understood that history.

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