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001 95021958
003 DLC
005 20021207204436.0
008 950609s1996 lauab b 001 0 eng
010 $a 95021958
020 $a0807119792 (cl : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
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050 00 $aHD8138.5.B55$bC48 1996
082 00 $a331.6/2729207286$220
100 1 $aChomsky, Aviva,$d1957-
245 10 $aWest Indian workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica, 1870-1940 /$cAviva Chomsky.
260 $aBaton Rouge :$bLouisiana State University Press,$cc1996.
300 $axiii, 302 p. :$bill., map ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [267]-285) and index.
520 1 $a"History of UFCO's Atlantic coast operations in Costa Rica from perspective of largely West Indian labor force. Examines formation of enclave economy, including role of West Indian labor, subsistence production, and health problems as occasion of worker-company misunderstandings. Also studies workers' cultural and political lives apart from, and sometimes in conflict with, company, and how West Indians and UFCO figured in Costa Rican nationalist thought and politics"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.$uhttp://www.loc.gov/hlas/
650 0 $aAlien labor, West Indian$zCosta Rica$xHistory.
650 0 $aAgricultural laborers$zCosta Rica$xHistory.
650 0 $aBanana trade$zCosta Rica$xHistory.
610 20 $aUnited Fruit Company$xHistory.