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Summary:

"Bananeras is a vital accounting of the struggles still being waged."--Margaret Randall, author of When I Look Into the Mirror and See You: Women, Terror, and Resistance Women banana workers have organized themselves and gained increasing control over their unions, their workplaces, and their lives. Highly accessible and narrative in style, Bananeras recounts the history and growth of this vital movement and shows how Latin American woman workers are shaping and broadly reimagining the possibilities of international labor solidarity. Dana Frank is a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the author of the award-winning Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism.

Table of Contents:

• The work enslaves us
• SITRATERCO: women's power Is union power
• Honduras: a free space
• Latin America: the big challenge
• The war at home
• Global allies.

Author/Creator:

Frank, Dana , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Bananeras: women transforming the banana unions of Latin America [by Frank, D.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Bananeras [by Frank, D.] (Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2016 — ISBN 9781608465354)

Subjects:

Tela Railroad Company — Sindicato de Trabajadores

Banana trade — Latin America — Employees

Women agricultural laborers — Latin America — Social conditions

Women agricultural laborers — Labor unions — Latin America

Tela Railroad Company

Banana trade — Employees

Banana trade

Women agricultural laborers — Social conditions

Women agricultural laborers

Labor unions

Latin America

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-131) and index.
Title from resource description page (Recorded Books, viewed April 04, 2016).
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

HD6073.B232 L294 2016eb

ISBNs:

9781608465361 (electronic bk.)
1608465365 (electronic bk.)
9781608465354 [Invalid]
1608465357 [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

Publisher Number, Recorded Books: EB00648840

OCLC Numbers:

946165854

Other Control Numbers:

EBC4454828 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp12994408