This article presents an overall view of voluntary action groups in Leon,
Guanajuato, Mexico, a light industrial city of some 720,000 inhabitants. During
1983-84, 354 groups were identified, and 98 of them were studied in depth. Labor
unions, cooperatives, neighborhood associations, and small savings clubs were
found to be of substantial importance among lower income groups. Important re
lationships were discovered between government and voluntary agencies, many of
them competitive or co-optative. The paper includes some comparisons between
Leon and Neuquen, Argentina, where the author studied voluntary associations in
1981-82.
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