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035 _9(DLC) 95021958
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010 _a95021958
020 _a0807119792 (cl : alk. paper)
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050 1 4 _a106 HD 8138.5
_bC548w 1996
082 0 0 _a331.6/2729207286
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100 1 _aChomsky, Aviva,
_d1957-
245 1 0 _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 2 0 _aUnited Fruit Company
_xHistory.
920 _a**LC HAS REQ'D # OF SHELF COPIES**
999 _c8864
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