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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... union in the country. Hardly an individual United Fruit worker did not join the union, which served thousands. It brought grass-roots pressure to bear on the struggles for a higher wage and eventually won a collective contract covering ...
... union rank and file, and unaffiliated rural wage workers and campesino proprietors. (Of these seventy-one, about twenty were interviewed on a number of occasions and gave from four to over twenty hours of their time.) The gender and ...
... union for- mation ousted Estrada Cabrera. The democratic sectors of society elected a moder- ate civilian as president, who permitted political reform and labor organizing. Some union organizing actually took place in the countryside ...
... union pressure during the revolution because the communal living conditions were so unhygienic).29 A communal water pump and outhouses were usually located in the center of each yard, while a shed directly in front of each subdivided ...
... Union , says the party believed that “ we must throw ourselves into rural organizing in the countryside , where the ... unions ; through them we learned all of the above, and it is only 22 The Meanings of Dictatorship.
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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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 |