In the Shadows of State and Capital: The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900-1995 Contributor(s): Striffler, Steve (Author) |
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ISBN: 0822328364 ISBN-13: 9780822328360 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $97.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2001 Annotation: "This is an ambitious and stimulating story told with verve and momentum. Striffler does a magnificent job of clarifying the causes, forms, and logic of the various movements of workers and peasants that contributed to the United Fruit Company's abandonment of the plantation, the emergence of peasant cooperatives, and their eventual replacement by local capitalists."--Catherine LeGrand, coeditor of "Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations " "An innovative contribution to the study of the relationships between popular groups, state agents, and a series of capitalists. Striffler uses a fascinating array of sources such as life histories, local archives and newspapers, and even the internal correspondence between United Fruit officials."-- Carlos de la Torre, author of "Populist Seduction in Latin America: The Ecuadorian Experience " |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Industries - Agribusiness |
Dewey: 338.763 |
LCCN: 2001046027 |
Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions |
Physical Information: 0.98" H x 6.3" W x 9.62" (1.29 lbs) 256 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Latin America |
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Publisher Description: 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 U.S. imperialism in the region--the banana industry and, in particular, the United Fruit Company (Chiquita). He argues that, even within this highly stratified industry, popular struggle has contributed greatly to processes of capitalist transformation and historical change. |