"Without Masters is an anthropological history of the radical ethical and political principle of autogestión around the world in the twentieth century, beginning with Algeria in 1962 and ending in its mistaken identity as a Zapatista principle in Mexico in the 1990s. Along the way, it was adopted by French radicals of the 1960s, transformed by Mexico Citys anarcho-punk scene in the 1980s, became attached to Zapatismo through university benefit concerts in the 1990s, and popularized through the large national university (UNAM) strike of 1999-2000. By the first decades of the twenty first century, autogestión was associated more closely with independent cultural production (zines, music, art) and Zapatismo than with its origins in anarchism or syndicalism. Livia K. Stone brings the quiet radicalism of Mexico Citys autogestive collectives to an English-speaking audience for the first time as it serves as a reminder of Mexicos formative role in the creation of prestige social theory and re-thinks the relationship between data and theory in the social sciences"-- Provided by publisher.