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In the Shadows of State and Capital tells the story of how Ecuadorian peasants gained, and then lost, control of the banana industry. Providing an ethnographic history of the emergence of subcontracting within Latin American agriculture and of the central role played by class conflict in this process, Steve Striffler looks at the quintessential form of twentieth-century U.S. imperialism in the region - the banana industry and, in particular, the United Fruit Company (Chiquita). He argues that, even within this highly stratified industry, popular struggle has contributed greatly to processes of capitalist transformation and historical change.

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Book category Books in English Economics, finance, business & management Industry & industrial studies Primary industries

• Full title: In the Shadows of State and Capital
• Subtitle: The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900-1995
• Author: Steve Striffler
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9780822328360
• ISBN: 0822328364
• ID: 04937546
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Weight: 585 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 154 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. December 2001

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