The Time of Freedom: Campesino Workers in Guatemala's October RevolutionUniversity of Pittsburgh Press, 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. Through court records, labor and agrarian ministry archives, and oral histories, Forster demonstrates how labor conflict on the plantations prepared the ground for national reforms that are usually credited to urban politicians. She focuses on two plantation zones that generated exceptional momentum: the coffee belt in the highlands around San Marcos and the United Fruit Company's banana groves near Tiquisate. Although these regions were unlike in size and complexity, language and race, popular culture and work patterns, both erupted with demands for workers' rights and economic justice shortly after the fall of Castañeda in 1944. A welcome balance to the standard "top-down" histories of the revolution, Forster's sophisticated analysis demonstrates how campesinos changed the course of the urban revolution. By establishing the context of grassroots mobilization, she substantially alters the conventional view of the entire revolution, and particularly the reforms enacted under President Albenz. |
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... IGT - C , Leg . 48753 , January 1948 , union financial report dated Dec. 31 , 1947. On June 9 , 1947 , the government conferred legal recognition on the first union in the land , at United Fruit ( see López Larrave , Breve historia , 31 ) ...
... IGT - C , Leg . 48751 , October - November 1947 , letter of Nov. 22. In La Reforma , official intervention led to the lowering of the weight of the box of coffee to 120 pounds , while in El Tumbador , the inspector cajoled fifty - eight ...
... IGT - C , Leg . 48756 , April 1948 , letter of Feb. 23 . 91. See , for example , IGT - C , Leg . 48806 , July 1951 , letter of July 13 . 92. IGT - C , Legs . 48761 , September 1948 , record of Sept. 28 , and 48756 , April 1948 , let ...
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