Abstract

ROMERO GIL, Juan Manuel. Sonora: The revolution at the Socavón, 1910-1918. Sig. his [online]. 2009, vol.11, n.21, pp.14-38. ISSN 1665-4420.

This paper analyzes the impact that the Mexican Revolution had over the main mining centers located in Sonora, Mexico. Its propose is to wide the history vision which sustains that large mining centers, did not interrupted their productivity because of that movement. In a new perspective, based in archival documents, it has been shown that mining towns polarized their social and political lives during every revolution phase. That is, the workers, organized in embryonic unions, took advantage of the political context to claim, trough the usage of stoppages and strikes, stale aspirations of wages, health and housing. In times or stages of the revolutionary movement, especially during the factional struggle, they managed to form true communes of mine workers, imposing their hegemony In sum, we think that the mine workers, especially the emblematic ones of Cananea, need to be considered as a social movement in the Mexican Revolution that sediment the struggles of the early twentieth century.

Keywords : revolution; workers; autonomy; unions; mining.

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