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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... official actions. The history of the revolution on the plantations takes up where earlier histories have left off. San Marcos and Tiquisate were home to some of the most intensive grass-roots organizing in Guatemala during the 1940s and ...
... of elite attacks on popular organizing. As for the Labor Ministry's records, some of its correspondence survives among the uncataloged material in the National Archives. Many officials believe these records 8 Introduction.
... officials believe these records were burned. The Labor Ministry did in fact burn records from more recent decades ... official sources, by contrast, a single version is usually presented as accurate. In the face ofthese contradictions ...
... officials manipulated the facts to make the government appear in the most favorable light, while some events never entered the official written record, such as customary forms of planter “justice” under Ubico and bureaucratic corruption ...
... official record.28 Once the land was cleared of its former inhabitants, UFCo erected housing for banana workers. Usually such housing consisted of blocks of two-story wooden structures, built facing each other across open yards. 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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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 |