1900-1995 ethnographic history of the United Fruit Company's impact on Ecuador's banana industry, authored by Steve Striffler. The work analyzes peasant struggle, capitalist transformation, and the emergence of contract farming, drawing on archives, company documents, and oral testimony. It won the 2001 President's Award of the Social Science History Association.
Use Cases
- Analyze the relationship between peasant activism and multinational corporate withdrawal based on historical narrative.
- Study the process of agrarian restructuring and the emergence of subcontracting in Latin American agriculture.
- Model the influence of class conflict on capitalist transformation and state formation.
- Research the impact of U.S. imperialism via the banana industry on a specific national context.
Strengths
- Winner of the 2001 President's Award of the Social Science History Association.
- Draws on multiple sources including state archives, company documents, and extensive oral testimony.
- Provides a detailed historical narrative covering a 95-year period (1900-1995).
Limitations
- Row count, column structure, and file formats are unknown.
- The license is closed, restricting data access and reuse.
- The dataset's specific format and structure are not described.
Provenance
- Source
- Steve Striffler
- Collection Method
- Research drawing on state and popular archives, United Fruit documents, and oral testimony.
- Time Range
- 1900-1995
- Geography
- Ecuador