West Indian workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica, 1870-1940
By: Aviva Chomsky.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
Subjects: United Fruit Company -- History; Alien labor, West Indian -- Costa Rica -- History; Agricultural laborers -- Costa Rica -- History; Banana trade -- Costa Rica -- History
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-285) and index.