Frontmatter -- AMERICAN ENCOUNTERS / GLOBAL INTERACTIONS -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Capitalist Transformations -- PART ONE The World of Plantations -- Introduction to Part One -- 2 The Banana Boys Come to Ecuador -- 3 The Birth of an Enclave: Labor Control and Worker Resistance -- 4 On...

"Employing original fieldwork, historical analysis, and sociological theory, Sekine and Bonanno probe how Japan's food and agriculture sectors have been shaped by the global push toward privatization and corporate power, known in the social science literature as neoliberalism. They also examine...