Mexico 1876

Synopsis

The first workers' congress in Mexico began on 5 March 1876 in Mexico City. Delegates to the convention named the new organization Congreso Obrero Permanente (Permanent Working Congress) with the hope that they would be able to unite all workers of Mexico. The next 30 years heralded the early beginnings of industrialization in Mexico and the parallel rise in the burgeoning labor movement. Many labor organizations formed at this time with the purpose of helping Mexican workers advance their rights after a history of struggle against repressive governmental and capitalistic groups. Unfortunately, many of these early labor organizations ultimately folded.

Timeline

• 1856: Gustave Flaubert publishes Madame Bovary.
• 1861: Emancipation of the serfs in Russia.
• 1867: Maximilian surrenders to Mexican forces under Benito Juarez and is executed. Thus ends Napoleon III's dreams for a new French empire in the New World.
• 1869: Completion of the first U.S. transcontinental railway...