Bananeros in Central America
Author: Clyde Schubert Stephens
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 280
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Dana Frank
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 2016-04-11
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 1608465365
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This story of Latina labor organizers is “a vital accounting of the struggles still being waged” (Margaret Randall, author of When I Look Into the Mirror and See You: Women, Terror, and Resistance). Women who pick and pack bananas in Latin America have organized themselves and gained increasing control over their unions, their workplaces, and their lives—while making gender equity central in their effort. Highly accessible and narrative in style, and written by the author of the award-winning Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism, Bananeras recounts the history and growth of this vital movement and shows how Latin American woman workers are shaping and broadly reimagining the possibilities of international labor solidarity. Includes photographs. “A wonderful book—entertaining, enlightening, and inspiring. A unique blend of personal stories grounded in a solid analysis of the globalization of the banana economy, the rise of a regional banana workers movement, and the intense internal struggle for gender justice within Latin America’s historically male-dominated unions.” —Stephen Coats, former Executive Director, US Labor Education in the Americas Project
Author: Luis Montes
Publisher: Bioversity International
Published: 1933
Total Pages: 16
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Dana Frank
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 2016-03-01
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 1608465357
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Women banana workersbananerasare waging a powerful revolution by making gender equity central in Latin American labor organizing."
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Publisher: IICA Biblioteca Venezuela
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 124
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Dr. Richard Edgar Zwez
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2020-02-04
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 179484693X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The author's family life as a youth in Honduras where his father worked for the United Fruit Company.
Author: John Soluri
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2021-03-09
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1477322825
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Bananas, the most frequently consumed fresh fruit in the United States, have been linked to Miss Chiquita and Carmen Miranda, "banana republics," and Banana Republic clothing stores—everything from exotic kitsch, to Third World dictatorships, to middle-class fashion. But how did the rise in banana consumption in the United States affect the banana-growing regions of Central America? In this lively, interdisciplinary study, John Soluri integrates agroecology, anthropology, political economy, and history to trace the symbiotic growth of the export banana industry in Honduras and the consumer mass market in the United States. Beginning in the 1870s, when bananas first appeared in the U.S. marketplace, Soluri examines the tensions between the small-scale growers, who dominated the trade in the early years, and the shippers. He then shows how rising demand led to changes in production that resulted in the formation of major agribusinesses, spawned international migrations, and transformed great swaths of the Honduran environment into monocultures susceptible to plant disease epidemics that in turn changed Central American livelihoods. Soluri also looks at labor practices and workers' lives, changing gender roles on the banana plantations, the effects of pesticides on the Honduran environment and people, and the mass marketing of bananas to consumers in the United States. His multifaceted account of a century of banana production and consumption adds an important chapter to the history of Honduras, as well as to the larger history of globalization and its effects on rural peoples, local economies, and biodiversity.
Author: Dan Koeppel
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781594630385
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Award-winning journalist Dan Koeppel navigates across the planet and throughout history, telling the cultural and scientific story of the world's most ubiquitous fruit"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011-04-11
Total Pages: 564
ISBN-13: 9004203346
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With a series of rich case studies focused on mobile laborers, this book demonstrates how the regional migrations of the early modern era came to be connected, contributing to the creation of an increasingly integrated nineteenth-century world.
Author: Marc Edelman
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780804720441
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book studies the changing social relations in a region of Costa Rica that does not conform to the country's image as an "agrarian democracy" and investigates why latifundios (large unproductive or under-utilized estates) still dominate much of Latin America.