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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... labor force controlled by the employer to an unprecedented degree. Banana workers were arguably less free than the hungrier and poorer permanent workers of other plantation sectors in Guatemala. The Great Depression and Ubico's Reasoned ...
... permanent worker from another town.72 A migrant worker from the highlands painted this picture: From before the time ... workers, occasionally a wage as high as 20 centavos was reported during the 1930s on the larger and more successful ...
Campesino Workers in Guatemala's October Revolution Cindy Forster. to finca ... worker: “He could make you pick 150 pounds every day if he felt like it.”76 ... permanent laborer who worked in the groves administered by the storekeeper's ...
... work accidents received any kind of compensation for injury. A permanent plantation worker summed up his anger this way: “They treated us like indios.We are indígenas, yes, but we are not indios. It was free labor from six to six ...
... permanent workers squatted on communal land in La Reforma; many were in their sixties and seventies and all had come ... labor pulls ofthe agro-export economy.10 The rise of coffee as a new plantation system rode roughshod over local ...
Περιεχόμενα
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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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