The United Fruit Company in Latin America
In: NPA series on United States business performance abroad 7
In: NPA series on United States business performance abroad 7
In: United States business performance abroad. Case study 7
In: American business abroad
In: International law reports, Band 23, S. 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, Band 3, Heft 4, S. 1006-1011
ISSN: 2161-7953
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.
Introduction: ways of living, ways of knowing -- From scramblers for fruit to banana empire, 1870-1930 -- Tropical vexations -- Corporate welfarism meets the tropics -- Wandering foci of infection -- Becoming banana cowboys -- Serving science on the side -- Conclusion.
In: Journal of Latin American studies, Band 38, Heft 1, S. 208-210
ISSN: 0022-216X
In: International affairs, Band 81, Heft 3, S. 664-665
ISSN: 0020-5850
The United Fruit Company (UFC), an American corporation, monopolized the banana trade in the British colony of Jamaica for most of the 20th century, despite efforts by the British to establish a foothold (see Clegg 2002). While the British colonial government focused its efforts on challenging the UFC's domination in Jamaica; in 1923, a UFC subsidiary called Swift Banana Company began undertaking the commercial export of bananas in the then British colony of St. Lucia. Research on the St. Lucia banana industry, during the period 1923 to 1942, was very limited, and has largely dismissed the decline of the banana industry as the result of its inability to survive the Panama disease epidemic. This paper challenges this explanation; arguing that UFC subsidiaries contributed significantly to both the rise and decline of St. Lucia's banana industry from 1923 to 1942.
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"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
In: Diplomatic history, Band 47, Heft 3, S. 472-500
ISSN: 1467-7709
In: Journal of Latin American studies, Band 28, Heft 2, S. 357-381
ISSN: 0022-216X
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In: Cuban studies, Band 46, Heft 1, S. 335-350
ISSN: 1548-2464
In: International labor and working class history: ILWCH, Band 52, S. 164-166
ISSN: 0147-5479