Waking from the dream Mexico's middle classes after 1968 - Walker, Louise E. (Stanford University Press, 2013)
Introduction : the middle classes and the crisis of the institutional revolution -- Rebel generation : being a middle-class radical, 1971-1976 -- Cacerolazo : rumors, gossip, and the conservative middle classes, 1973-1976 -- The power of petróleo : black gold and middle-class noir, 1977-1982 -- Consumer-citizens : inflation, credit, and taxing the middle classes, 1973-1985 -- La crisis : on the front lines of austerity and apertura, 1981-1988 -- Earthquake : civil society in the rubble of Tlatelolco, 1985-1988 -- Conclusion : the debris of a miracle
Includes bibliographical references and index
When the postwar boom began to dissipate in the late 1960s, Mexico's middle classes awoke to a new, economically terrifying world. And following massacres of students at peaceful protests in 1968 and 1971, one-party control of Mexican politics dissipated as well. The ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party struggled to recover its legitimacy, but instead saw its support begin to erode. In the following decades, Mexico's middle classes ended up shaping the history of economic and political crisis, facilitating the emergence of neo-liberalism and the transition to democracy. Waki