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AVILA ESPINOSA, Felipe Arturo. A Renewed Mission: Catholic Workers' Organizations between 1906 and 1911. Estud. hist. mod. contemp. Mex [online]. 2004, n.27, pp.61-94. ISSN 0185-2620.

At the end of the porfiriato and during the first years of the Mexican Revolution there was a missionary and doctrinal renovation in a part of the Catholic hierarchy and sympathizer lays who carried out considerable efforts to be linked to the workers with the explicit conception of promoting a project of Catholic labor organization. The Catholic labor organizations reached, in the years of study, considerable success when achieving that their project were one of the most important, as much for the number of affiliated workers and artisans, as for the integration and cohesion that they got.

Palavras-chave : workers; porfiriato; Mexican Revolution; social catholicism; workers' catholic organizations; mutual societies; National Catholic Congress; El País; La Unión Católica Obrera; José Mora y del Río; Catholic Worker Union; José María Troncoso.