Bananeras
Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America
Description
"[Bananeras] is a vital accounting of the struggles still being waged."—Margaret Randall, author of When I Look Into the Mirror and See You: Women, Terror, and Resistance
Women banana workers have organized themselves and gained increasing control over their unions, their workplaces, and their lives. Highly accessible and narrative in style, Bananeras recounts the history and growth of this vital movement and shows how Latin American woman workers are shaping and broadly reimagining the possibilities of international labor solidarity.
Dana Frank is a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the author of the award-winning Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism.
Author Bios
Dana Frank is Professor of History Emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her latest book, What Can We Learn From the Great Depression? Stories of Ordinary People and Collective Action in Hard Times, will be out in September 2024 from Beacon Press. Her books on the history of US labor, race, and gender include Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism; Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-29; and with Robin D.G. Kelley and Howard Zinn, Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor’s Last Century. On Honduras she is the author of The Long Honduran Night: Resistance, Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup, and Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America.
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Publication date: March 1, 2016
