In this article, we look at how economic and political restructuring in Mexico has transformed working conditions, informing new strategies of labor militancy. Our research shows that, despite fierce repression by private corporations, the government, and corrupt unions, Mexican workers organize in independent movements to demand freedom of association and collective bargaining by engaging in wildcat strikes and building international solidarity. We focus on two labor movements in the State of Coahuila that shed light on the strategic alliance between independent workers' movements in the automotive industry and the Miners Union. Our hypothesis is that this coalition serves two different but complementary goals: independent workers' movements aim at the democratization of union relations by fighting against corrupt company unions, while the Miners aspire to extend their representation from mining and the steel industry to the automotive sector by offering better working conditions to autoworkers. However, these actors seek to create different and opposing political wusacapes. The underground struggle of autoworkers in Coahuila provides a significant microperspective from which to analyze opportunities and contradictions for the Mexican labor movement posed by the recent election of president Andres Manuel López Obrador, in July 2018.

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墨西哥汽车工业工人运动的重制

在本文中，我们探讨了墨西哥的经济和政治结构调整如何改变了工作条件，为新的劳工好战策略提供了信息。我们的研究表明，尽管受到私营公司，政府和腐败工会的猛烈镇压，墨西哥工人还是组织独立运动，通过野蛮罢工和建立国际团结来要求结社自由和集体谈判。我们着眼于科阿韦拉州的两次劳工运动，这些运动阐明了汽车行业独立工人运动与矿工联盟之间的战略联盟。我们的假设是，该联盟服务于两个不同但互补的目标：独立工人运动旨在通过与腐败的公司工会作斗争来实现工会关系的民主化，而矿工则希望通过为汽车工人提供更好的工作条件，将他们的代表权从采矿和钢铁业扩展到汽车业。但是，这些行为者试图制造不同的，相互对立的政治胡言乱语。汽车工人的科阿韦拉地下斗争提供了从中分析2018年7月由最近总统洛佩斯的选举所造成的墨西哥劳工运动，机遇和矛盾一个显著microperspective。