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Bananas and business : the United Fruit Company in Colombia, 1899-2000 / Marcelo Bucheli.
LIBRA HD9259.B3 C7228 2005
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bucheli, Marcelo.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United Fruit Company--History.
- United Fruit Company.
- Banana trade--Colombia--Magdalena (Department)--History--20th century.
- Banana trade.
- Banana trade--Colombia--Urabá, Gulf of, Region--History--20th century.
- History.
- Colombia.
- Colombia--Magdalena (Department).
- Physical Description:
- xi, 241 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2005]
- Contents:
- From hotel luxury suites to working-class lunchboxes
- The United Fruit Company in Latin America: business strategies in a changing environment
- The United Fruit Company and local politics in Colombia
- The labor conflicts of the United Fruit Company in Magdalena in the 1920s
- Nobody's triumph: labor unionism in Magdalena after World War II
- The United Fruit Company's relationship with local planters in Colombia
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-230) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0814799345
- OCLC:
- 56033355
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