“In perfect order and well behaveness” . The Salesclerks of the Clothing Stores and the Sunday Rest in Mexico City, 1911-1915

Authors

  • Cristina Sánchez Parra Colegio de Estudios Latinoamericanos - Universidad nacional Autónoma de México

Keywords:

Salesclerk, commercial spaces, protest repertoires, Sunday rest, political organization, public opinion

Abstract

This article studies the development of the days of protest that the employees of the clothing stores of Mexico City staged in their demand for Sunday rest, at the beginning of the 20th century. To this end, it presents an overview of the clothing trade in the city as well as the implications of the seller’s trade. Within a revolutionary context, the organizational forms that these dependents undertook are analyzed, identifying both their speeches and the protest repertoires they used, while putting in tension the evaluations that the press of the time made of such demonstrations.

Author Biography

Cristina Sánchez Parra, Colegio de Estudios Latinoamericanos - Universidad nacional Autónoma de México

Full-time research professor at the Colegio de Estudios Latinoamericanos, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. She has published articles related to urban consumption practices, the social composition of workers in clothing shops, fashion, advertising and the discourses that emerge around these dynamics of consumption in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is a member of the research group on ‘The middle sectors of Mexico City, 1855-1931. Living conditions, socio-cultural practices and identity traits’, attached to the UAM-Cuajimalpa.

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Published

2025-12-18

Issue

No. 102 (2022)

Section

Estudios

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