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...

Bananas are the fifth most widely traded farm product. While the results of monopolization in the banana business, such as environmental contamination and the exploitation of labor, are frequently criticized, Globalized Fruit, Local Entrepreneurs demonstrates that the industry is not globally...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Linking Places of Production and Consumption -- Chapter 1: Going Bananas -- Chapter 2: Space Invaders -- Chapter 3: Altered Landscapes and Transformed Livelihoods -- Chapter 4: Sigatoka, Science, and Control -- Chapter 5:...