The company they kept
Subtitle: migrants and the politics of gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960
By: Lara Putnam.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: United Fruit Company -- Employees -- Costa Rica -- Puerto Limón -- Social conditions.; United Fruit Company. -- Employees -- Costa Rica -- Puerto Limón -- Social conditions.; Migrant agricultural laborers -- Costa Rica -- Puerto Limón -- Social conditions.; Women -- Costa Rica -- Puerto Limón -- Social conditions.; Blacks -- Costa Rica -- Puerto Limón -- Social conditions.; Sex role -- Costa Rica -- Puerto Limón -- History.; Power (Social sciences) -- Costa Rica -- Puerto Limón -- History.; Puerto Limón (Costa Rica) -- Social conditions.; Puerto Limón (Costa Rica) -- Economic conditions.; Puerto Limón (Costa Rica) -- Social conditions.; Puerto Limón (Costa Rica) -- Economic conditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-295) and index.
Table of contents: title: The evolution of family practice in Jamaica and Costa Rica; title: Sojourners and settlers : economic cycles and traveling lives, 1850s-1940s; title: Las princesas del dollar : prostitutes and the banana booms, 1890s-1920s; title: Compañeros : communities and kinship, 1920s-1950s; title: Facety women : rudeness and respectability, 1890s-1930s; title: Men of respect : authority and violence, 1890s-1950s.