While the crisis in Central America is receiving attention from scholars in a variety of disciplines, few works have focused on the role of nongovernment organizations in reducing levels of violence in that region. This remarkable case study examines the resilient struggle by workers at the Guatemala Coca-Cola bottling plant from 1976-1986, and documents why this union was able to survive within a repressed government to become a key factor in stimulating a larger independent labor movement in the country. Scholars of political sociology, labor studies, and the governments and politics of...
While the crisis in Central America is receiving attention from scholars in a variety of disciplines, few works have focused on the role of nongove...
"Impressively researched. . . . Digests a mountain of literature and follows up with a dazzling compilation of anecdotes and specific local knowledge based on extensive first-person on-the-scenes interviews. . . . Far and away the best single source on worker-rights struggles and issues in the Caribbean Basin."--Mark Hager, Washington College of Law
In this remarkably wide-ranging study, the author asks whether trade restrictions stimulate actual labor reform. Taking Caribbean Basin nations as evidence, Frundt evaluates the successes and failures of labor requirements in the...
"Impressively researched. . . . Digests a mountain of literature and follows up with a dazzling compilation of anecdotes and specific local knowled...
Bananas are the most-consumed fruit in the world. In the United States alone, the public eats about twenty-eight pounds of bananas per person every year. The total value of the international banana trade is nearly five billion dollars annually, with 80 percent of all exported bananas originating in Latin America. There are as many as ten million people involved in growing, packing, and shipping bananas, but American consumers have only recently begun to think about them and about their working conditions. Although European nations have helped create a fair trade system for bananas grown in...
Bananas are the most-consumed fruit in the world. In the United States alone, the public eats about twenty-eight pounds of bananas per person every ye...
