Analyzes the banana industry crisis and its labour related effects. Highlights the continuing importance of the banana industry to the region.

Explores the campaign leading to the signing in 2001 of an international framework agreement (IFA) between the global banana enterprise Chiquita and the Latin American Coordination of Banana Workers Unions (COLSIBA). Shows how the banana workers unions employed innovative tactics of regional...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the agrarian structure and rural area poverty in Honduras - describes role of the banana plantations in the evolution of the agricultural sector; examines trends in farm size, land tenure, land utilization, crop yields, agricultural employment on large and small...

Includes comments on the Safety and Health in Construction Convention, 1988 (No. 167).

Covers trend from 1990 to 1998.