April 28, 2006
Harvest Is Power for Women in Banana-Worker Unions
Dana Frank, a professor of history at the University of California at Santa Cruz
That bananas come in bunches is the limit of most Americans' knowledge of that tropical fruit. But in Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America (South End Press), Ms. Frank explains how the women of Latin America's banana-worker unions are using the connection between their labor and the global demand for bananas to empower themselves in the
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