Bananas and business : the United Fruit Company in Colombia, 1899-2000

Author(s)

• Bucheli, Marcelo

Bibliographic Information

Bananas and business : the United Fruit Company in Colombia, 1899-2000

Marcelo Bucheli

New York University Press, c2005

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-230) and index

Contents of Works

• 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

Details

• NCID: BA73984695
• ISBN:
  • 0814799345
• LCCN: 2004017316
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 241 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HD9259.B3
  • DC22 : 338.7/634772/098610904
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : United Fruit Company -- History
  • LCSH : Banana trade -- Colombia -- Magdalena (Dept.) -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Banana trade -- Colombia -- Urabá, Gulf of, Region -- History -- 20th century