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Author Striffler, Steve, 1967- author.

Title In the shadows of state and capital : the United Fruit Company, popular struggle, and agrarian restructuring in Ecuador, 1900-1995 / Steve Striffler
Published Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 242 pages) : maps
Series American encounters/global interactions
American encounters/global interactions.
Contents 1 Capitalist Transformations -- PART ONE The World of Plantations -- Introduction to Part One -- 2 The Banana Boys Come to Ecuador -- 3 The Birth of an Enclave: Labor Control and Worker Resistance -- 4 On the Margins of an Enclave: The Formation of State, Capital, and Community -- 5 Imagining New Worlds -- 6 The End of an Enclave -- PART TWO The Emergence of Contract Farming -- Introduction to Part Two -- 7 From Workers to Peasants and Back Again: Agrarian Reform at the Core of an Enclave -- 8 From Struggles to Movement: The Expansion of Protest and Community Formation -- 9 The Reconstitution of State, Capital, and Popular Struggle -- 10 In Search of Workers: Contract Farming and Labor Organizing
Summary A historical ethnography of the banana industry in Ecuador that demonstrates how capitalist transitions have shaped the twentieth century
Analysis United Fruit Company Historia
Comercio de Bananos Trabajadores Ecuador Costa del Pacífico Actividad política Historia Siglo XX
Campesinos Ecuador Actividad política Historia Siglo XX
Reforma agraria Ecuador Historia Siglo XX
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-240) and index
Notes English
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Subject United Fruit Company -- History
SUBJECT United Fruit Company fast
United Fruit Company gnd
Subject Banana trade -- Employees -- Political activity -- Ecuador -- Pacific Coast -- History -- 20th century
Peasants -- Political activity -- Ecuador -- History -- 20th century
Land reform -- Ecuador -- History -- 20th century
Capitalism -- Ecuador -- History -- 20th century
15.85 history of America.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Corporate & Business History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Agribusiness.
Capitalism
Land reform
Peasants -- Political activity
Politics and government
Agrarreform
Landarbeiter
Politisches Handeln
United Fruit Company.
Landhervormingen.
SUBJECT Ecuador -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93007326
Subject Ecuador
Ecuador -- Pacific Coast
Ecuador
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822383765
0822383764
1282920316
9781282920316
9786612920318
6612920319