Trade Unionists Against Terror: Guatemala City, 1954-1985

by Deborah Levenson-Estrada

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807844403
• ISBN13: 9780807844403
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

A scholarly and deeply moving history of trade unionism.

Excellent! Tells the history of the Guatemalan trade union movement duringthree decades of violent repression. Gives the basic facts of the struggle,through successes and failures, as well as stories by surviving members onhow they dealt with the death threats, the disappearances and the killings of their friends and collegues. An inspiration to unionists and others fighting for basic human dignity and human rights anywhere in the world.Martin Kulldorf