Shattered Hope Guatemalan Workers And The Promise Of Democracy

International Labor Rights Research and Education Fund -- Preface -- Introduction: The Problem of Guatemalan Democracy -- The Contemporary Context of the Labor Movement -- Rural Organization -- Conditions of Work -- Violence Against Organized Workers and Peasants -- Work Without Wages: Civil Patrols and Food for Work -- Child Labor -- Impediments to Securing Legal Recognition -- Employer Resistance to Union Organization -- Collective Bargaining, Dispute Resolution and Strikes -- Solidarismo: Harmony Without Unions -- The Law’s Failure: Ineffective Enforcement -- United States Policy Towards Guatemala -- The Need for Change

Biography

James A. Goldston