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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Honduran workers
- new voices, old memories
- Intersecting projects: contested visions for the North Coast
- Revolutionary antecedents to the 1954 strike: liberals, rebels and radicals
- Life and labor in banana fincas
- The making of a campeño and campeña culture: race, gender, and resistance
- 'Mujeres que cuidaban hombres y vendedoras ambulantes': gendered roles and informal work on the North Coast
- ¡La Gran Huelga del 1954!: labor organizing in the banana labor camps
- Contemporary movement leaders reflect on the legacy of the 1954 strike
- Conclusion
- Appendices. Los 30 puntos: Tela Railroad Company worker demands
- Central strike committee 7 demands of company and Honduran government, May 17, 1954
- Standard Fruit Company worker strike demands, May 7 1954
- Signed contract between Standard Fruit Company, Agúan Valley, the members of the central strike for labor relations
- Program of the Honduran Revolutionary Democratic Party
- Brief selected chronology of labor and political events in Honduras
- Table of early signs of worker actions and strikes in Honduras.