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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... laborers in the coffee and banana groves changed the course of the urban revolution. Across the next six years, under President Juan José Arévalo Bermejo, plantation workers joined up with peasants in the high- lands to win a more just ...
... plantation labor. In real terms, his administration presided over two historic pieces of legislation that largely benefited Ladinos and not the Mayas. The first was a labor code in 1947 (which denied most plantation workers the right to ...
Campesino Workers in Guatemala's October Revolution Cindy Forster. tory of ... plantation agriculture. Their actions carved out a revolutionary project ... plantation zones generated exceptional momentum that changed the meaning of the ...
... Labor Ministry did in fact burn records from more recent decades be- cause, they say ... workers' par- ticipation in the urban uprising of October 20, 1944, was ... plantation economy. Like the court records, however, the Labor Ministry ...
... plantation owners, obligatory labor drafts were legislated that swept up ... workers. The bur- den of debt was passed from parent to child, outlasting ... plantation labor was necessarily Indigenous because poor Ladinos were so few ...
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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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