| Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America Contributor(s): Frank, Dana (Author) |
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ISBN: 1608465357 ISBN-13: 9781608465354 Publisher: Haymarket Books OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations - Social Science | Women's Studies - History | Latin America - General |
| Dewey: 331.881 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.3" W x 8.4" (0.45 lbs) 152 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |