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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... union was collecting more than Q800 a month in dues from well over 3,000 members . All the workers in Tiquisate belonged to a single union called SETCAG and all the workers in Izabal belonged to another called SETUFCO . The division was ...
... union members , and had unjustly fired and kicked out eighteen workers , including two union representatives . Among the vic- tims were three " humble men who don't have the spirit to fight for their rights . " Another union officer at ...
... unions were met with similar tactics , and workers in those unions rose to the occasion , mounting labor struggles that reached fever pitch long before the advent of agrarian reform in 1952. Third , union organizing in Tiquisate even at ...
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The Time of Freedom: Campesino Workers in Guatemala's October Revolution Cindy Forster Περιορισμένη προεπισκόπηση - 2001 |
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