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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... United Fruit (or UFCo, in the common abbreviation) deftly manipulated Ladino and mestizo workers against those of West Indian descent, driving a wedge of prejudice through the heart of the workforce. The racism fanned by UFCo backfired ...
... UFCo's own Great White Fleet would move the cargo rather than its com- petitor, Grace Steamship Lines, which served the nearby Pacific port of San José.15 In its search for labor, the company did not hire Indigenous laborers from the ...
... UFCo's ex- pansion . After 1944 , the displaced on occasion were able to resist . The village of Guizicil , Santa Ana Mixtán , offers a glimpse of how the company removed peas- ants who were farming land it coveted . Around 1942 , some ...
... UFCo zones, forms of labor control based on the logic of U.S. racism were imported to the Central American plantations. Managers came from various regions of the United States, but they carried the common baggage of Jim Crow and social ...
... UFCo workers related to one another as a sin- gle workforce and subculture , subject to powerful company rules and whims dis- guised as corporate necessity . In this sense , the higher wage obscures the fact that this was a labor force ...
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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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The Time of Freedom: Campesino Workers in Guatemala's October Revolution Cindy Forster Προβολή αποσπασμάτων - 2001 |
The Time of Freedom: Campesino Workers in Guatemala's October Revolution Cindy Forster Προβολή αποσπασμάτων - 2001 |
The Time of Freedom: Campesino Workers in Guatemala's October Revolution Cindy Forster Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2001 |