In the Shadows of State and Capital: The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900-1995

by Steve Striffler

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Winner of the 2001 President's Award of the Social Science History Association In the Shadows of State and Capital tells the story of how Ecuadorian peasants gained, and then lost, control of the banana industry. Providing an ethnographic history of the emergence of subcontracting within Latin American agriculture and of the central role played by class conflict in this process, Steve Striffler looks at the quintessential form of twentieth-century...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822328631

ISBN13:9780822328636

Release Date:December 2001

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:256 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Related Subjects

Agriculture Biography & History Business Business & Finance Business & Investing Company Profiles Ecuador Industries & Professions Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Popular Economics

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