The Time of Freedom: Campesino Workers in Guatemala's October RevolutionUniversity of Pittsburgh Press, 4 Νοε 2001 - 287 σελίδες "The time of freedom" was the name that plantation workers--campesinos--gave to Guatemala's national revolution of 1944-1954. Cindy Forster reveals the critical role played by the poor in organizing and sustaining this period of reform. |
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... Ladino (or non-Indigenous) leaders tried to root out the habits of dictatorship instilled over decades. Campesinos in the Mayan highlands, in the Ladino eastern departments, and on the lowland banana plantations unleashed struggles to ...
... Ladino Tiquisate were utterly unlike in size and social complexity, language and race, popular culture and work patterns, but despite these striking differences, both places erupted with demands for economic justice. They provide the ...
... Ladino banana workers in Tiquisate won national attention, thanks to the notoriety of their U.S. employer. Banana workers struck for higher wages within weeks after the dictator fell, then organized the largest rural union in the ...
... Ladino revolutionaries. Under Arévalo, reforms that sound very ambitious on paper were frequently unenforced, and hence unimpressive in practice. Until Arbenz, the revolution from above suffered from an absence of action and a surfeit ...
... Ladino emerged in the role of overseers and shopkeepers. In the heavily populated western highlands, plantation labor was necessarily Indigenous because poor Ladinos were so few. German growers and their Guatemalan-born descendants ...
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3 Birth of the Revolution | 74 |
4 Banana Workers and the United Fruit Company in Tiquisate | 117 |
5 Agrarian Radicalism in San Marcos 19441952 | 138 |
6 Local Struggles and Land Reform | 177 |
7 Elite Backlash and Revenge | 197 |
Interview with Three Coffee Workers | 223 |
Interview with Woman in the Struggle for Land | 225 |
List of Interviews | 227 |
Notes | 231 |
Works Cited | 271 |
Index | 279 |
Back Cover | 288 |
Conclusion | 214 |
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