TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chomsky,Aviva
TI  - West Indian workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica, 1870-1940
SN  - 0807119792 (cl : alk. paper)
AV  - 106 HD 8138.5 C548w 1996
U1  - 331.6/2729207286 20
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Baton Rouge
PB  - Louisiana State University Press
KW  - United Fruit Company
KW  - History
KW  - Alien labor, West Indian
KW  - Costa Rica
KW  - Agricultural laborers
KW  - Banana trade
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-285) and index
N2  - "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
ER  -