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Author | : Marcelo Bucheli |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2005-02-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 081476987X |
For well over a century, the United Fruit Company (UFCO) has been the most vilified multinational corporation operating in Latin America. Criticism of the UFCO has been widespread, ranging from politicians to consumer activists, and from labor leaders to historians, all portraying it as an overwhelmingly powerful corporation that shaped and often exploited its host countries. In this first history of the UFCO in Colombia, Marcelo Bucheli argues that the UFCO's image as an all-powerful force in determining national politics needs to be reconsidered. Using a previously unexplored source—the internal archives of Colombia's UFCO operation—Bucheli reveals that before 1930, the UFCO worked alongside a business-friendly government that granted it generous concessions and repressed labor unionism. After 1930, however, the country experienced dramatic transformations including growing nationalism, a stronger labor movement, and increasing demands by local elites for higher stakes in the banana export business. In response to these circumstances, the company abandoned production, selling its plantations (and labor conflicts) to local growers, while transforming itself into a marketing company. The shift was endorsed by the company's shareholders and financial analysts, who preferred lower profits with lower risks, and came at a time in which the demand for bananas was decreasing in America. Importantly, Bucheli shows that the effect of foreign direct investment was not unidirectional. Instead, the agency of local actors affected corporate strategy, just as the UFCO also transformed local politics and society.
Author | : Peter Chapman |
Publisher | : Canongate Books |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2022-12-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1838859764 |
In this compelling history, Peter Chapman shows how the United Fruit Company took bananas from the jungles of Costa Rica to the halls of power in Washington, D.C., with not just clever marketing, but covert CIA operations, bloody coups and brutalised workforces. And how along the way they turned the banana into a blueprint for a new model of unfettered global capitalism: one that serves corporate power at any cost.
Author | : Jim Blasingame |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780970927804 |
Author | : Dan Koeppel |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781594630385 |
"Award-winning journalist Dan Koeppel navigates across the planet and throughout history, telling the cultural and scientific story of the world's most ubiquitous fruit"--Page 4 of cover.
Author | : Mark Earls |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2003-01-03 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0470853018 |
This book chronicles the dawn of the age of creativity in business, when new ideas and practices based on creativity will drastically change the way we do business. Starting with an overview of the age of marketing, the book winds its way through the past and the present to show us the future of business, backed up with insights from sociology and psychology.
Author | : James W. Martin |
Publisher | : University of New Mexico Press |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2018-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0826359434 |
The iconic American banana man of the early twentieth century—the white “banana cowboy” pushing the edges of a tropical frontier—was the product of the corporate colonialism embodied by the United Fruit Company. This study of the United Fruit Company shows how the business depended on these complicated employees, especially on acclimatizing them to life as tropical Americans.
Author | : Steve Striffler |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2003-11-20 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780822331964 |
DIVThe history of banana cultivation and its huge impact on Latin American, history, politics, and culture./div
Author | : Marcelo Bucheli |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Banana trade |
ISBN | : 9781479838226 |
Author | : Mike Berners-Lee |
Publisher | : Profile Books |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2020-09-03 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1782837116 |
'It is terrific. I can't remember the last time I read a book that was more fascinating and useful and enjoyable all at the same time.' Bill Bryson How Bad Are Bananas? was a groundbreaking book when first published in 2009, when most of us were hearing the phrase 'carbon footprint' for the first time. Mike Berners-Lee set out to inform us what was important (aviation, heating, swimming pools) and what made very little difference (bananas, naturally packaged, are good!). This new edition updates all the figures (from data centres to hosting a World Cup) and introduces many areas that have become a regular part of modern life - Twitter, the Cloud, Bitcoin, electric bikes and cars, even space tourism. Berners-Lee runs a considered eye over each area and gives us the figures to manage and reduce our own carbon footprint, as well as to lobby our companies, businesses and government. His findings, presented in clear and even entertaining prose, are often surprising. And they are essential if we are to address climate change.
Author | : James Wiley |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0803216378 |
The Banana demystifies the banana trade and its path toward globalization. It reviews interregional relationships in the industry and the changing institutional framework governing global trade and assesses the roles of such major players as the European Union and the World Trade Organization. It also analyzes the forces driving today's economy, such as the competitiveness imperative, diversification processes, and niche market strategies. Its final chapter suggests how the outcome of the recent banana war will affect bananas and trade in other commodities sectors as well.