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Frontmatter -- Inhalt. -- Teil I. Übersicht über die Bananenwirtschaft in der Welt. -- Kapitel 1. Grundlegende Gesichtspunkte für die Bananenkultur und die Bananenwirtschaft. -- Kapitel 2. Die United Fruit Company. -- Teil II. Die trustfreie Bananenwirtschaft in der Welt. -- Kapitel 1. Der Aufbau der französischen Bananenwirtschaft. -- Kapitel 2. Die britische trustfreie Bananenwirtschaft. -- Kapitel 3. Die deutsche Bananenwirtschaft in Kamerun. -- Kapitel 4. Das italienische Staatsmonopol für Bananen. -- Kapitel 5. Die Ordnungsbestrebungen in der Bananenwirtschaft der Kanarischen Inseln. -- Kapitel 6. Die Banane in Brasilien. -- Kapitel 7. Mexikos Kampf gegen den Trust. -- Kapitel 8. Andere Länder. -- Schlußteil: Zusammenfassung -- Schrifttum.

Jeder kennt CHIQUITA - den US-Konzern. Aber wer bzw. was steckt dahinter? Der Autor schildert, wie dieser Frucht-Multi als UNITED FRUIT COMPANY gemeinsam mit der US-Administration und der CIA die eigenen Interessen mit Gewalt verfolgt und durchsetzt. Menschenrechtsverletzungen, Umweltsünden, maßlose Gier und Einmischung in die Politik sind dabei genauso an der Tagesordnung wie die gezielte Manipulation der Medien durch Falschmeldungen, um einen Militärschlag zu rechtfertigen.

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

"Bitter Fruit" is a comprehensive and insightful account of the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. First published in 1982, this book has become a classic, a textbook case of the relationship between the United States and the Third World. The authors make extensive use of U.S. government documents and interviews with former CIA and other officials. It is a warning of what happens when the United States abuses its power.

Introduction -- American business in the Civil War -- Giant business in communications and transportation -- The commercial response to a mass market -- The United Fruit Company -- The Singer Sewing Machine Company -- Giant farms -- The American Sugar Refining Company -- The American Tobacco Company -- The forest products industry -- Mining -- Standard Oil Corporation -- United States Steel Corporation -- The meat packers.