Chomsky, Aviva,  1957- <br/><br/>
West Indian workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica, 1870-1940 / 
Aviva Chomsky. 
 - Baton Rouge :  Louisiana State University Press,  c1996. 
 - xiii, 302 p. :  ill., map ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-285) and index. 
<br/><br/> "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/ 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0807119792 (cl : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>95021958  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>United Fruit Company--History.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Alien labor, West Indian--History.--Costa Rica<br/>Agricultural laborers--History.--Costa Rica<br/>Banana trade--History.--Costa Rica
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>106 HD 8138.5  / C548w 1996 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>331.6/2729207286