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Article: La industria textil en Mexico [The Textile Industry in Mexico]
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- Business History Review
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- July 1, 2001
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La industria textil en Mexico [The Textile Industry in Mexico]. Edited by Aurora Gomez-Galvarriato. Mexico City: Institute Mora, 1999. Bibliography, notes, tables. 269 pp. Paper, $14.17. ISBN 9-686-91487-0.
Reviewed by Richard Salvucci
In the late 1940s and 1950s, structuralist economic thinkers in Latin America came to see the trade shocks produced by the Great Depression and World War II as a precondition for the industrialization then taking place. Yet most industry in Mexico dated from the late nineteenth century, and the textile industry-unmechanized, of coursewas started by Castillian immigrants in the early 1530s. So here you have a paradox: Mexico, which got its first industry ...