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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462256103321

Autore

Suarez-Potts William J

Titolo

The making of law [[electronic resource] ] : the Supreme Court and labor legislation in Mexico, 1875-1931 / / William J. Suarez-Potts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California, : Stanford University Press, 2012

ISBN

0-8047-8348-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (361 p.)

Disciplina

344.7201

Soggetti

Labor laws and legislation - Mexico - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Rights of Free Labor, 1875-1910; 2. Free Labor and the Federal Judiciary, 1875-1910; 3. Porfirian Industrial Relations and the Rights of Labor; 4. Toward Social Legislation; 5. Legislating Labor Law, 1911-1924; 6. The Supreme Court and Labor Law, 1917-1924; 7. Labor Law and Supreme Court Decisions, 1925-1931; 8. The Enactment of the Federal Labor Law, 1925-1931; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Despite Porfirio Díaz's authoritarian rule (1877-1911) and the fifteen years of violent conflict typifying much of Mexican politics after 1917, law and judicial decision-making were important for the country's political and economic organization. Influenced by French theories of jurisprudence in addition to domestic events, progressive Mexican legal thinkers concluded that the liberal view of law-as existing primarily to guarantee the rights of individuals and of private property-was inadequate for solving the ""social question""; the aim of the legal regime should instead be one of harmo