Mexico’s history of labor and industrialization meet in Gutiérrez Alvarez’s study of industry, industrialists, and factory workers in the Puebla-Tlaxcala region during the Porfiriato and early revolutionary period. Winner of the Premio Salvador Azuela/INEHRM in 1997, this book describes the world of regional empresarios, including the origins of their capital, the workers who labored in their factories, and the government representatives who mediated between them. In the literature review Gutiérrez Alvarez states that she is interested in the point of contact between empresarios and workers, but her sources provide more information on the former than the latter. The author dedicates considerable time to examining how empresarios and government officials shared kinship, nationality (Spanish), religion, and political alliances that created a network that facilitated empresario access to capital, raw materials, and a work force. These ties compared to those of other regional elites examined by Mark Wasserman, Alex Saragoza, and...

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