Jeffrey L Gould

Solidarity Under Siege

The Salvadoran Labor Movement, 1970-1990

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Produktbeschreibung

Depicts the rise and fall of the militant labor movement in modern El Salvador.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 211mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781108410199
• ISBN-10: 1108410197
• Artikelnr.: 54911076

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey L. Gould is Distinguished Professor of History at Indiana University, Bloomington. His books include To Lead as Equals: Rural Protest and Political Consciousness in Chinandega, Nicaragua, 1912-1979 (1990), To Die in This Way: Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965 (1998), and with Aldo Santiago, To Rise in Darkness: Revolution, Repression, and Memory in El Salvador, 1920-1932 (2008). He has also directed and codirected three documentary films, Port Triumph, which documents many of the events and people in Solidarity under Siege, La Palabra en el Bosque, and Scars of Memory: El Salvador, 1932.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: an arc of triumph and despair
1. Tired of the abuse: gender and the rise of the Sindicato de la Industria Pesquera, 1970-9
2. The cost of solidarity: the Salvadoran labor movement in Puerto el Triunfo and greater San Salvador, 1979-80
3. The last chance: the Junta Revolucionaria de Gobierno and the impending civil war
4. Labor conflicts in Puerto el Triunfo, El Salvador, 1985
5. The far right and fraud
6. Solidarity and discord in the labor movement, 1984-9
7. The longest strike in history
Conclusion: tropical deindustrialization and its discontents
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index.