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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... day's walk farther up the mountain face to the cold-country Indigenous towns, which since the 1870s had been drained ... day laborers, peasants, small farmers, and banana workers poured into Tiquisate to make fast money.16 Employment as ...
... day's chores. Making tortillas required boiling the corn and lime mixture, then grinding it once or twice to form a smooth dough, which is shaped into tortillas and cooked over the fire. The entire process for a family of seven requires ...
... day laborer. He was like a slave. It was a terrible thing. I asked my mother when I was just a kid, “Where did my father go ... day's worth of bread for 2 centavos. Plantation wages fluctuated widely from finca to finca, not to mention ...
... day's labor in the fields when they were Indigenous but were afforded respect and at least minimal protection when they were Ladinos. More violent examples emerge from the oral histories, which assert that Ladino bosses assumed the ...
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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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