In the Shadows of State and Capital
The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900-1995
1st Edition
Published on 14. December 2001
256 pages
978-0-8223-8376-5 (ISBN)
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A historical ethnography of the banana industry in Ecuador that demonstrates how capitalist transitions have shaped the twentieth century.
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Steve Striffler
In the Shadows of State and Capital
The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900-1995
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12/2001
Duke University Press
€34.00
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Steve Striffler
In the Shadows of State and Capital
The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900-1995
Book
12/2001
Duke University Press
€109.50
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Steve Striffler is Professor of Anthropology and Doris Zemurray Stone Chair in Latin American Studies at the University of New Orleans.
Content
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
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
