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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... records, and above all working-class memories collected as oral histories that paint a portrait of a lost golden age, refracted through four succeeding decades of military terror. A second reason for the invisibility of campesino ...
... record is so sparse. One source may assert massive working-class mobilization while another draws a portrait of ... records and oral histories, however, the state emerges as less secure and more pliant than national histories have ...
... records allows us to document the ways in which the resistance of women was driven underground into private rebellion or hidden acts of mutual solidarity, at the same time that racist and class hierarchies—which were suffered by women ...
... records (from 1947 to 1954). The discussion ofthe agrarian reform is built on a reading of all the surviving plantation records for San Marcos in the files of Arbenz's National Agrarian Department. In 1954, books and documents were ...
... records were burned. The Labor Ministry did in fact burn records from more recent decades because, they say, there was no place to store them. The labor and court documents record daily life on a mundane level and in vo- luminous ...
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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 |