A hidden history of the Cuban Revolution : how the working class shaped the guerrilla victory /
Millions of words have been written about the Cuban Revolution, which, to both its supporters and detractors, is almost universally understood as being won by a small band of guerrillas. In this unique and stimulating book, Stephen Cushion turns the conventional wisdom on its head, and argues that t...
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New York :
Monthly Review Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Organized labor in the 1950s
- A crisis of productivity
- The employers' offensive
- Workers take stock
- Responses to state terror
- Two strikes
- Last days of Batista
- The first year of the new Cuba
- Conclusion: what was the role of organized labor in the Cuban insurrection?