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Roots of resistance : a story of gender, race, and labor on the North Coast of Honduras /
"On May 1, 1954, striking banana workers on the North Coast of Honduras brought the regional economy to a standstill, invigorating the Honduran labor movement and articulating a series of demands on the US-controlled banana industry. Their actions ultimately galvanized a broader working-class s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2021.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "On May 1, 1954, striking banana workers on the North Coast of Honduras brought the regional economy to a standstill, invigorating the Honduran labor movement and articulating a series of demands on the US-controlled banana industry. Their actions ultimately galvanized a broader working-class struggle and reawakened long-suppressed leftist ideals. The first account of its kind in English, Roots of Resistance explores contemporary Honduran labor history through the story of the great banana strike of 1954 and centers the role of women in the narrative of the labor movement. Drawing on extensive firsthand oral history and archival research, Suyapa Portillo Villeda examines the radical organizing that challenged US capital and foreign intervention in Honduras at the onset of the Cold War. She reveals the everyday acts of resistance that laid the groundwork for the 1954 strike and argues that these often-overlooked forms of resistance should inform analyses of present-day labor and community organizing. This book highlights the complexities of transnational company hierarchies, gender and race relations, and labor organizing that led to the banana-workers strike and how these dynamics continue to reverberate in Honduras today"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 385 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-367) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781477322215 1477322213 9781477322208 1477322205 |