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Roots of Resistance - A Story of Gender, Race, and Labor on the North Coast of Honduras (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,281
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Roots of Resistance - A Story of Gender, Race, and Labor on the North Coast of Honduras (Hardcover): Suyapa G Portillo Villeda

Roots of Resistance - A Story of Gender, Race, and Labor on the North Coast of Honduras (Hardcover)

Suyapa G Portillo Villeda

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Winner of the 2021 Sara A. Whaley Prize of the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) 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 placing 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 G. 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. Roots of Resistance 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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Imprint: University Of Texas Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: April 2021
First published: 2021
Authors: Suyapa G Portillo Villeda
Dimensions: 231 x 157 x 43mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards
Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 978-1-4773-2218-5
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > Central government policies
Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Industrial relations & safety > Industrial relations > General
Books > History > American history > General
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LSN: 1-4773-2218-3
Barcode: 9781477322185

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