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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... jail awaited campesinos who tried to evade labor contractors. The coffee boom thus intensified social antagonisms ... jails and labor organizing was prohibited. Coffee exports more than doubled.9 A brief respite from the rule ofthe ...
... jail seventy trade unionists. Somehow the anarchists eluded capture, lending credence to the Communists' accusations against them. Police shut down union locals while the state created a mock labor federation and gave free rein to “all ...
... jail, Ubico next proceeded against the former associates who had turned against him when he rewrote the law to permit continuous reelection. By 1934, all resistance had been broken. An eerie silence settled across the land. Under Ubico ...
... jail. There were also three days of free labor owed to the township, and the unpaid labor on the roads when the caporales hit people. There were times people worked so hard they wanted to cry. Those caporales on the road gangs just ...
... jail sentences on no authority except his own , since the jails were on the fincas , and also to impose corporal punishment with the stick and with blows . " 77 Workers in the countryside could expect physical violence at the hands of ...
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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 |