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- Title
Afro-Jamaican traditions and labor organizing on United Fruit Company plantations in Costa Rica...
- Authors
Chomsky, Avi
- Abstract
Focuses on the ways by which Jamaican banana workers at the United Fruit Company's plantations in Limon, Costa Rica, attempted to challenge the dominant plantation system by creating their own kind of life and society in the early 1900s. Migration of some 20,000 Jamaicans to Costa Rica between 1900 and 1913 to work at the plantations; Factors which prevented worker organization.
- Subjects
COSTA Rica; PUERTO Limon (Costa Rica); BANANA trade; JAMAICAN foreign workers; PLANTATION workers; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Journal of Social History, 1995, Vol 28, Issue 4, p837
- ISSN
0022-4529
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/jsh/28.4.837