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In: International law reports, Volume 23, p. 605-609
ISSN: 2633-707X
International Organization — Organs of International Administration — Postal Union of the Americas and Spain — Gratuitous Transport by Member of Mail of Other Contracting Parties — Liability for Cost of Transport — Avoidance of Double Payment.
In: American journal of international law: AJIL, Volume 3, Issue 4, p. 1006-1011
ISSN: 2161-7953
In: NPA series on United States business performance abroad 7
In: United States business performance abroad. Case study 7
In: American business abroad
In: NACLA newsletter, Volume 1, Issue 10, p. 8-9
From hotel luxury suites to working-class lunchboxes -- The United Fruit Company in Latin America: business strategies in a changing environment -- The United Fruit Company and local politics in Colombia -- The Labor conflicts of the United Fruit Company in Magdalena in the 1920s -- Nobody's triumph: labor unionism in Magdalena after World War II -- The United Fruit Company's relationship with local planters in Colombia.
For well over a century, the United Fruit Company (UFCO) has been the most vilified multinational corporation operating in Latin America. Criticism of the UFCO has been widespread, ranging from politicians to consumer activists, and from labor leaders to historians, all portraying it as an overwhelmingly powerful corporation that shaped and often exploited its host countries. In this first history of the UFCO in Colombia, Marcelo Bucheli argues that the UFCO's image as an all-powerful force in determining national politics needs to be reconsidered. Using a previously unexplored source—the internal archives of Colombia's UFCO operation—Bucheli reveals that before 1930, the UFCO worked alongside a business-friendly government that granted it generous concessions and repressed labor unionism. After 1930, however, the country experienced dramatic transformations including growing nationalism, a stronger labor movement, and increasing demands by local elites for higher stakes in the banana export business.In response to these circumstances, the company abandoned production, selling its plantations (and labor conflicts) to local growers, while transforming itself into a marketing company. The shift was endorsed by the company's shareholders and financial analysts, who preferred lower profits with lower risks, and came at a time in which the demand for bananas was decreasing in America. Importantly, Bucheli shows that the effect of foreign direct investment was not unidirectional. Instead, the agency of local actors affected corporate strategy, just as the UFCO also transformed local politics and society
In: NACLA newsletter, Volume 1, Issue 6, p. 7-7
In: Cuban studies, Volume 46, Issue 1, p. 335-350
ISSN: 1548-2464
In: Journal of Latin American studies, Volume 38, Issue 1, p. 208-210
ISSN: 0022-216X
In: Economic affairs: journal of the Institute of Economic Affairs, Volume 25, Issue 4, p. 87-88
ISSN: 1468-0270
In: International affairs, Volume 81, Issue 3, p. 664-665
ISSN: 0020-5850
"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