The Political Origins of Social Security in Mexico during the Cárdenas and Ávila Camacho Administrations
- 1 February 2005
- journal article
- Published by University of California Press in Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos
- Vol. 21 (1) , 59-95
- https://doi.org/10.1525/msem.2005.21.1.59
Abstract
This study compares efforts to adopt social insurance legislation in the administrations of Lázaro Cárdenas and Manuel Ávila Camacho in Mexico to explain the political origins of the welfare state in Latin America. The author argues that the adoption and implementation of social insurance in Mexico was the outcome of an implicit bargain between organized labor and the state following the 1940 presidential election. This bargain signifies the rebuilding by the Ávila Camacho administration of the cross-class coalition originally designed by President Cárdenas and jeopardized by the nationalization of petroleum and presidential succession struggles of the late 1930s.Este trabajo compara esfuerzos a implantar legislación del seguro social en las administraciones de Lázaro Cárdenas y de Manuel Ávila Camacho en México para explicar los orígenes políticos del Estado de bienestar en América Latina. La autora discute que la adopción y la implantación del seguro social en México fueron resultados de un negocio implícito entre la clase trabajadora organizada y el Estado que seguía la elección presidencial de 1940. Este negocio significa la reconstrucción por la administración de Ávila Camacho de la coalición de clases diseñada por presidente Cárdenas y comprometida originalmente por la nacionalización del petróleo y de las luchas de la sucesión presidencial de los finales de los 30s.Keywords
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