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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... struggles to achieve a radically egalitarian vision of rights to land and the dignity of labor. On the national level, however, President Arévalo preferred to channel working-class energy into formal. 1 Introduction: Guatemala's “Time of ...
... struggles for a higher wage and eventually won a collective contract covering every worker on the company's payroll. Through their union they demanded dig- nity from their U.S. employer, while also claiming protection from the ...
... struggles and na- tional legislation, and this particular point of entry into the profusion of detail slices the evidence in such a way as to reveal the nature and extent of lower-class unity, rather than the lines of fracture according ...
... struggle for economic justice on the plantations , ideas about punishable rape underwent a marked change . Yet other forms of social violence remained so deeply ingrained that the ten years of reform barely left a trace in the practice ...
... struggle developed slowly, the protest gathered strength from entire trade associations, which in turn added their own demands for wage increases and other improvements. In the countryside the union struggle unleashed battle after ...
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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 Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2001 |