Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction (Alan Knight)
1. The Structure of the Foreign-Owned Petroleum Industry in Mexico, 1880–1938 (Jonathan C. Brown)
2. The Cultural Roots of the Oil Workers’ Unions in Tampico, 1910–1925 (S. Lief Adleson)
3. The Rise and Fall of Union Democracy at Poza Rica, 1932–1940 (Alberto J. Olvera)
4. The Politics of the Expropriation (Alan Knight)
5. Worker Participation in the Administration of the Petroleum Industry, 1938–1940 (Ruth Adler)
6. The Expropriation and Great Britain (Lorenzo Meyer)
7. The Expropriation in Comparative Perspective (George Philip)
8. Technical and Economic Problems of the Newly Nationalized Industry (Fabio Barbosa Cano)
9. The Consolidation and Expansion of Pemex, 1947–1958 (Isidro Morales)
10. Pemex during the 1960s and the Crisis in Self-Sufficiency (Isidro Morales)
11. The Oil Industry and Mexico’s Relations with the Industrial Powers (Gabriel Székely)
Conclusion: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Oil Sector in Mexican Society (George Baker)
Contributors
Index

About the Author

Editors Jonathan C. Brown and Alan Knight are both on the faculty of the history department at the University of Texas at Austin.