Steve Striffler

In the Shadows of State and Capital

The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900-1995

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"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 "

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 585g
• ISBN-13: 9780822328360
• ISBN-10: 0822328364
• Artikelnr.: 21853975

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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