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Assistant Professor of History at CIDE, Mexico City. I got my BA in International Relations at El Colegio de México and my P.h.D. in Latin American History at Columbia University. My interests include the history of labor, welfare, public health and informality in Latin America.
My manuscript, "The Small Universe of Social Protection: Labor, Underemployment and Assistance in Mexico's Welfare State, 1917-1970", examines the history of welfare policies and their social effects in mid-20th century Mexico. My previous research traced the legal exclusion of domestic labor, a heavily feminized sector and one of Mexico's largest occupational categories, from key benefits guaranteed to other workers in post-revolutionary Mexico.
Supervisors: Pablo Piccato (chair), Nara Milanich, and José Moya
Address: Mexico City
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Papers by Sara Hidalgo
Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, 2024
In the decades following the Mexican Revolution, many sick people traveled to Mexico City, where ... more In the decades following the Mexican Revolution, many sick people traveled to Mexico City, where most hospitals had traditionally been located, in search of medical care. This article argues that these healing journeys were a crucial component of how the Mexican welfare state functioned in practice between the late 1930s and the early 1960s. During this period, the postrevolutionary government ostensibly sought to expand the population’s access to health care. However, despite some efforts in this direction, limited investment in public health and social services jeopardized citizens’ access to adequate medical and hospital care. At the end of this period, most of the country’s public hospitals were still concentrated in the capital, while the medical infrastructure in some provinces was virtually nonexistent. In this context, healing journeys became one of the ways in which citizens sought to realize the promised right to health care.
Nexos (México, D.F.), 2019
Estudios de Historia Moderna y Contemporánea de México, 2017
International Labor and Working-Class History, 2018
This article examines the legal construction of domestic labor as an unskilled and undervalued oc... more This article examines the legal construction of domestic labor as an unskilled and undervalued occupation in postrevolutionary Mexico, a milieu that was otherwise renowned for an extraordinary expansion of workers’ rights. Based on the writing of legal scholars and legal disputes between domestic workers and their employers that reached Mexico's Supreme Court, the article discusses how a discourse that framed domestic labor as an occupation confined within the protective bounds of the household became an enduring legal formula to justify and reinforce the exclusion of domestics from labor protections recognized for other workers. In so doing, it shows how Supreme Court jurisprudence ultimately redefined the criteria for delimiting this large occupational category based on what was understood as its particular spatialization (the indoor household space) and its distinctive temporalization (guided by family needs instead of production demands). Designating workers who fit these cr...
International Labor and Working Class History, 2018
This article examines the legal construction of domestic labor as an unskilled and undervalued oc... more This article examines the legal construction of domestic labor as an unskilled and undervalued occupation in postrevolutionary Mexico, a milieu that was otherwise renowned for an extraordinary expansion of workers' rights.
Book Reviews by Sara Hidalgo
Cómo citar este artículo: Hidalgo, S. Hacia una cultura de la prevención: higiene, campañas sanit... more Cómo citar este artículo: Hidalgo, S. Hacia una cultura de la prevención: higiene, campañas sanitarias y medicina social en México. Estudios de Historia Moderna y Contemporánea de México (2017), http://dx.
Books by Sara Hidalgo
Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, 2024
In the decades following the Mexican Revolution, many sick people traveled to Mexico City, where ... more In the decades following the Mexican Revolution, many sick people traveled to Mexico City, where most hospitals had traditionally been located, in search of medical care. This article argues that these healing journeys were a crucial component of how the Mexican welfare state functioned in practice between the late 1930s and the early 1960s. During this period, the postrevolutionary government ostensibly sought to expand the population’s access to health care. However, despite some efforts in this direction, limited investment in public health and social services jeopardized citizens’ access to adequate medical and hospital care. At the end of this period, most of the country’s public hospitals were still concentrated in the capital, while the medical infrastructure in some provinces was virtually nonexistent. In this context, healing journeys became one of the ways in which citizens sought to realize the promised right to health care.
Nexos (México, D.F.), 2019
Estudios de Historia Moderna y Contemporánea de México, 2017
International Labor and Working-Class History, 2018
This article examines the legal construction of domestic labor as an unskilled and undervalued oc... more This article examines the legal construction of domestic labor as an unskilled and undervalued occupation in postrevolutionary Mexico, a milieu that was otherwise renowned for an extraordinary expansion of workers’ rights. Based on the writing of legal scholars and legal disputes between domestic workers and their employers that reached Mexico's Supreme Court, the article discusses how a discourse that framed domestic labor as an occupation confined within the protective bounds of the household became an enduring legal formula to justify and reinforce the exclusion of domestics from labor protections recognized for other workers. In so doing, it shows how Supreme Court jurisprudence ultimately redefined the criteria for delimiting this large occupational category based on what was understood as its particular spatialization (the indoor household space) and its distinctive temporalization (guided by family needs instead of production demands). Designating workers who fit these cr...
International Labor and Working Class History, 2018
This article examines the legal construction of domestic labor as an unskilled and undervalued oc... more This article examines the legal construction of domestic labor as an unskilled and undervalued occupation in postrevolutionary Mexico, a milieu that was otherwise renowned for an extraordinary expansion of workers' rights.
Cómo citar este artículo: Hidalgo, S. Hacia una cultura de la prevención: higiene, campañas sanit... more Cómo citar este artículo: Hidalgo, S. Hacia una cultura de la prevención: higiene, campañas sanitarias y medicina social en México. Estudios de Historia Moderna y Contemporánea de México (2017), http://dx.