Since beginning his career as a researcher in the area of ​​social sciences in the 1970s, Jorge Basurto developed their projects with an analytical view of the economic context and the political forces both built into the structure of the Mexican State, such as those expressed and continue to express from the movement and organization of workers, particularly under union forms. His first research was related to the industrial proletariat in our country and became a classic chair for scholars of political science and sociology. Unionism became a cornerstone in the socioeconomic analysis of his subsequent works, becoming a methodological contribution and a tool for studying the organization of workers and labor-management relations in various fields. His broad vision has led him to perform parallel but complementary works, such as the economic crisis and its impact on social change, uneven development, the ideological crisis currents which in turn led to great social changes in Mexico From the Mexican Revolution, with its variables in presidential periods Cardenas, Avila Camacho, Miguel Alemán and subsequent.