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Trade Unionists Against Terror: Guatemala City, 1954-1985

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Deborah Levenson-Estrada provides the first comprehensive analysis of how urban labor unions took shape in Guatemala under conditions of state terrorism. In Trade Unionists against Terror, she explores how workers made sense of their struggle for rights in the face of death squads and other forms of violent opposition from the state. Levenson-Estrada focuses especially on the case of 400 workers on the Coca-Cola bottling plant in Guatemala City, who, in order to offer protection to their union, successfully occupied the factory for over a year beginning in 1984 even as the country used to be under a state of siege. In line with Levenson-Estrada, religion provided the language of resistance, and workers who were engaged in what gave the look to be a dead-end battle constructed an identity for themselves as powerful agents of change. In keeping with oral histories in addition to documentary sources, Trade Unionists against Terror also illuminates complex relationships between urban popular culture, gender, circle of relatives, and place of job activism in Guatemala.

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