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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... El Porvenir workers asked 60 centavos daily , but met the resistance of the antilabor inspector mentioned above , who warned , " If we raise their wage at El Porvenir , we'll have to raise it on all the other fincas , and the finca ...
... El Porvenir Petitioner Campesino union , Finca Palmira Aldea Malacate , Malacatán Aldea Toninchum , Tajumulco Aldea Toquián Chico , Tajumulco Union of Finca San Juan , annex Union of Finca Martinica , annex Santa Teresa ( main finca ) ...
... El Porvenir . See Finca El Porvenir El Quetzal ( township ) , 145 , 157 El Salvador , 79 , 83-84 . See also Salvadorans El Tumbador ( township ) , 54 , 68 , 168 ; agrarian radicalism in , 145 , 150-51 , 156 , 165 , 166 encomiendas ...
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The Meanings of Dictatorship | 12 |
Race Poverty | 35 |
Birth of the Revolution | 74 |
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