Tinsman Buying into the Regime

Grapes and Consumption in Cold War Chile and the United States
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7737-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten

Reihe: American encounters/global interactions

Heidi Tinsman offers a transnational history of how Chilean grapes created new forms of consumption and labor politics in both Chile and the United States during the late twentieth century and early twenty-first.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tinsman, Heidi

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

1. The Long Miracle: Collaborations in the Chilean Fruit Industry, 1900–1990 25

2. Fables of Abundance: Grape Workers and Consumption in Chile 64

3. The Fresh Sell: Marketing Grapes in the United States 103

4. Boycott Grapes! Challenges by the United Farm Workers and the Chile Solidarity Movement 146

5. Not Buying It: Democracy Struggles in Chile 207

Epilogue 255

Notes 267

Bibliography 331

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Heidi Tinsman is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Partners in Conflict: The Politics of Sexuality, Gender, and Labor in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950–1973 and a coeditor of Imagining Our Americas: Toward a Transnational Frame, both also published by Duke University Press.