In the shadows of state and capital : the United Fruit Company, popular struggle, and agrarian restructuring in Ecuador, 1900-1995 / Steve Striffler.

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Uniform Title:Duke University Press Books.
American encounters/global interactions.
Main Author: Striffler, Steve, 1967-
Language:English
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2002.
Series:Duke University Press Books.
American encounters/global interactions.
Subjects:
Banana trade > Ecuador > Pacific Coast > Employees > Political activity > History > 20th century.
United Fruit Company > History.
Peasants > Ecuador > Political activity > History > 20th century.
Land reform > Ecuador > History > 20th century.
Ecuador > Politics and government > 20th century.
Capitalism > Ecuador > History > 20th century.
United Fruit Company > History > 20th century.
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Physical Description:xi, 242 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
Format: Electronic eBook
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.