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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... economic security. The ten years fall into two distinct periods of moderate reform under Arévalo followed by Arbenz's more ambitious aims. In the first half of the era, Ladino (or non-Indigenous) leaders tried to root out the habits of ...
... economic dominance of the traditional landed elites and the giant United Fruit Company by acknowledging the harshness of plantation labor. In real terms, his administration presided over two historic pieces of legislation that largely ...
... economic sector, by municipality, or by race, and examine each in isolation. Such micro-analysis has revealed a wealth of detail. Yet in aggregate it does damage to the perspective of the historical actors as participants in larger ...
... economic justice on the plantations, ideas about punishable rape underwent a marked change. Yet other forms of social violence remained so deeply ingrained that the ten years of reform barely left a trace in the practice of wife-beating ...
... economy. Like the court records, however, the Labor Ministry reports, functioning as legal documents, promote a higher standard of accuracy than is often found in individual accounts or the national press. This higher standard usually ...
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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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