West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica, 1870-1940 by Aviva Chomsky

West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica, 1870-1940

Aviva Chomsky

302 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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In the late nineteenth century, several U.S.-based companies, which merged into the United Fruit Company in 1899, began to build railroads and cultivate bananas in Costa Rica's Atlantic Coast province of Limon, recruiting mainly Jamaican workers. ...

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