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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... owners, obligatory labor drafts were legislated that swept up tens and hundreds of thousands of campesinos for each harvest.8 Liberals consolidated these laws in 1877and again in 1894to streamline the local regulations governing migrant ...
... owners, sharecroppers, renters, and day labor- ers who made their living from the land. Foreigners had already purchased large tracts for banana production when United Fruit chose Tiquisate as the nerve center of its Pacific-coast ...
... owner him- self , the dictator believed in the necessity of coercion to overcome endemic labor scarcity in the coffee groves . This scarcity was a matter not of too few workers but of too little pay to entice people to work of their own ...
... owner of a general store , the son of an administrator of a large German finca , “ One had to be very strict with the mozos because they did not want to work . " 78 The workers paced themselves to last through a twelve - hour day of ...
... owners and shared the “splendid tables and excellent cellars of German and French wines. The worker housing on these fincas sometimes had thousands of inhabitants under the charge of deputy mayors named by the owner.” This child of 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 |