Striffler / Joseph / Rosenberg In the Shadows of State and Capital

The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900–1995
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8376-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Reihe: American encounters/global interactions

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Striffler, Steve

Joseph, Gilbert M.

Rosenberg, Emily S.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Primärer Sektor Agrarökonomie, Ernährungswirtschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

1. Capitalist Transformations

Part One: The World of Plantations

2. The Banana Boys Come to Ecuador

3. The Birth of an Enclave: Labor Control and Worker Resistance

4. On the Margins of the 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

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 Reconstruction of State, Capital, and Popular Struggle

10. In Search of Workers: Contract Farming and Labor Organizing

11. Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Steve Striffler is Professor of Anthropology and Doris Zemurray Stone Chair in Latin American Studies at the University of New Orleans.