For a Just and Better World

“Sonia Hernández paints a vivid and heroic mural of Mexican labor activists in and around industrial Tampico during the early twentieth century in her latest book, For a Just and Better World: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938… . A richly woven and important labor study.” –Journal of American Ethnic History “For a Just and Better World is a well-written and detail-rich narrative with a robust theoretical framework and creative analysis of a complex world… Sonia Hernández provides a much-needed map for readers to find both the women and the engendered anarchism integral in this story of a collective quest for a just and better world.” –Southwestern Historical Quarterly “Sonia Hernández’s new book is an engaging story that unites a traditional focus on anarchist labor initiatives with a study of the roles that women anarchists played in the gendered and transnational politics stretching from the Gulf of Mexico and northward toward the Mexican-US border from before the Mexican Revolution to the end of the Lázaro Cárdenas era.” –Hispanic American Historical Review

Sonia Hernández is an associate professor of history at Texas A&M University and the author of Working Women into the Borderlands.