Steve Striffler: 3 books
In the Shadows of State and Capital
The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900–1995
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2001
Winner of the 2001 President’s Award of the Social Science History Association
In the Shadows of State and Capital tells the story of how Ecuadorian peasants gained, and then lost, control of the banana industry. Providing an ethnographic history of the emergence of subcontracting within...
Solidarity
Latin America and the US Left in the Era of Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2019
How and why has solidarity changed over time? Why have particular strategies, tactics, and strands of internationalism emerged or re-emerged at particular moments? And how has solidarity shaped the history of the US left in particular?*BR**BR*In Solidarity, Steve Striffler addresses these key questions,...
by Steve Striffler
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Anthropologist Steve Striffler begins this book in a poultry processing plant, drawing on his own experiences there as a worker. He also reports on the way chickens are raised today and how they are consumed. What he discovers about America’s favorite meat is not just unpleasant but a powerful indictment...