{"product_id":"9781469616353","title":"Trade Unionists Against Terror: Guatemala City, 1954-1985","description":"Deborah Levenson-Estrada provides the first comprehensive analysis of how urban labor unions took shape in Guatemala under conditions of state terrorism. In \u003ci\u003eTrade Unionists against Terror\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 at the Coca-Cola bottling plant in Guatemala City, who, in order to protect their union, successfully occupied the factory for over a year beginning in 1984 while the country was under a state of siege. According to Levenson-Estrada, religion provided the language of resistance, and workers who were engaged in what seemed to be a dead-end battle constructed an identity for themselves as powerful agents of change. Based on oral histories as well as documentary sources, \u003ci\u003eTrade Unionists against Terror\u003c\/i\u003e also illuminates complex relationships between urban popular culture, gender, family, and workplace activism in Guatemala.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"The University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47126031728880,"sku":"9781469616353","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781469616353_p0.jpg?v=1763699232","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781469616353","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}