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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... swept the region in 1944 and 1945 with the expectation that the land would be divided among the poor. In every coffee town in the department, plantation workers formed unions to press their demands. Not a township Introduction 3.
... township from the Pa- cific plain to the highlands remained untouched by the winds of political change. San Marcos campesinos immediately radicalized the revolution in the countryside, yet the poor of San Marcos have been erased from ...
... township and the necessary generalizations of national reality. It permits a greater level of accuracy in judgments about how and why the poor made this revo- lution their own. With respect to the dictatorship of the 1930s, for instance ...
... township of Tiquisate is located just a few miles from the sea and about forty miles west of the town of Escuintla. Before the Fruit Company ar- rived, the area was given over to cattle, with scattered corn plots farmed by campesinos ...
... townships, Tiquisate had more men than women (about 3,000 more).18 UFCo owned over 180,000 acres in the township by the dawn of the revo- lution in 1944.19 For the workers, wages were the greatest drawing power; housing was always ...
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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 |
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