Title: West Indian workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica, 1870-1940
First published: 1996
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.
Subjects: Agricultural laborers, Alien labor, West Indian, Banana trade, History, United Fruit Company, West Indian Alien labor, Costa rica, history, West Indian Foreign workers, United fruit company
Places: Costa Rica
LC classification: HD8138.5.B55 C48 1996