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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Striffler, Steve, 1967-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

American encounters/global interactions.

American encounters/global interactions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United Fruit Company--History.

United Fruit Company.

United Fruit Company--History--20th century.

Banana trade--Ecuador--Pacific Coast--Employees--Political activity--History--20th century.

Banana trade.

Peasants--Ecuador--Political activity--History--20th century.

Peasants.

Land reform--Ecuador--History--20th century.

Land reform.

Capitalism--Ecuador--History--20th century.

Capitalism.

Ecuador--Politics and government--20th century.

Ecuador.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A historical ethnography of the banana industry in Ecuador that demonstrates how capitalist transitions have shaped the twentieth century.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [232]-240) and index.

ISBN:

9786612920318

9781282920316

1282920316

9780822383765

0822383764

OCLC:

850216836