West Indian workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica, 1870-1940 / Aviva Chomsky.

By:

Chomsky, Aviva, 1957-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c1996.Description: xiii, 302 p. : ill., map ; 24 cmISBN:

0807119792 (cl : alk. paper)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

331.6/2729207286 20

LOC classification:

106 HD 8138.5 C548w 1996

Review: "History of UFCO's Atlantic coast operations in Costa Rica from perspective of largely West Indian labor force. Examines formation of enclave economy, including role of West Indian labor, subsistence production, and health problems as occasion of worker-company misunderstandings. Also studies workers' cultural and political lives apart from, and sometimes in conflict with, company, and how West Indians and UFCO figured in Costa Rican nationalist thought and politics"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58. http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Vol info	Copy number	Status	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Recursos Regionales	Recursos Regionales (2do. Piso)	106 HD 8138.5 C548w 1996 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	1	Available	00000033738

Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-285) and index.

"History of UFCO's Atlantic coast operations in Costa Rica from perspective of largely West Indian labor force. Examines formation of enclave economy, including role of West Indian labor, subsistence production, and health problems as occasion of worker-company misunderstandings. Also studies workers' cultural and political lives apart from, and sometimes in conflict with, company, and how West Indians and UFCO figured in Costa Rican nationalist thought and politics"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

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