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Citizens. The Case of the School of Arts and Crafts in Jalisco, 1842-1910 In this article there will be discussed the paper that the Schools of Arts and Trades played in the educational Mexican context of the 19th Century. We will see that these nurseries had the intention of forming "useful" citizens for the State. That is to say, productive and "civilized". This would achieved, by learning manual work in the schools of arts and trades. Which, Traditional trades were taught to the poor inhabitants of the most important urban concentrations of the country. One of them was Guadalajara, where it was founded the School of Mechanical Arts (later the School of Arts and Trades) as a way of training the workers who were needed by the new textile factories in the entity. The intention also was to grant an honest and honorable way of life for the needy ones, who were seen -according to the morality of the moment- as a danger that had to be eradicated. For this reason, the educational occupation proposed by the Schools of Arts and Trades was confined in the welfare, which was also related directly to the correctional system. Therefore, the institutions mentioned above were not offering an alternative for the social mobility, but instead they were conceived for turning considered "useless" people into productive subjects for the interests of the State. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]