![]() | The Time of Freedom: Campesino Workers in Guatemala’s October Revolution Subjects: Agricultural laborers -- Guatemala -- Political activity; Peasantry -- Guatemala -- Political activity; Guatemala -- History -- October Revolution 1944; Guatemala -- Politics and government -- 1945–1985; Guatemala -- History -- 1945–1985; Land reform --; "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. Cindy Forster has worked with immigrants rights networks in the San Francisco Bay area, with labor and human rights groups addressing problems in Central America, and as a union organizer with Justice for Janitors and the Silicon Valley Organizing Project. She is an assistant professor of history at Scripps College in Claremont, California. |
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