Women’s Roles in Latin America and the Caribbean by Kathryn A. Sloan (review)
daily during the administrations of post-revolutionary governors Adalberto Tejeda and Heriberto Jara. In a fascinating narrative, Fowler-Salamini examines the dynamic manner in which women coffee workers uniquely made manifest a union cazicazgo (local political rule by a powerful individual), "blend[ing] traditional and new elements of boss politics" (162), as it was developed out of a female-centered union culture rooted in everyday experience. Deftly analyzing this and other critical issues related to the political economy of Veracruz coffee, Fowler-Salamini has given us a fine-grained historical study that is richly informed by both a wide range of local and regional sources and a full consciousness of comparative and global perspectives.