Steve Striffler is Professor of Anthropology and Doris Zemurray Stone Chair in Latin American Studies at the University of New Orleans.

• Acknowledgments 1. Capitalist Transformations Part One: The World of Plantations 2. The Banana Boys Come to Ecuador 3. The Birth of an Enclave: Labor Control and Worker Resistance 4. On the Margins of the Enclave: The Formation of State, Capital, and Community 5. Imagining New Worlds 6. The End of an Enclave Part Two: The Emergence of Contract Farming 7. From Workers to Peasants and Back Again: Agrarian Reform at the Core of an Enclave 8. From Struggles to Movement: The Expansion of Protest and Community Formation 9. The Reconstruction of State, Capital, and Popular Struggle 10. In Search of Workers: Contract Farming and Labor Organizing 11. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

“An innovative contribution to the study of the relationships between popular groups, state agents, and a series of capitalists. Striffler uses a fascinating array of sources such as life histories, local archives and newspapers, and even the internal correspondence between United Fruit officials.”-Carlos de la Torre, author of Populist Seduction in Latin America: The Ecuadorian Experience “This is an ambitious and stimulating story told with verve and momentum. Striffler does a magnificent job of clarifying the causes, forms, and logic of the various movements of workers and peasants that contributed to the United Fruit Company’s abandonment of the plantation, the emergence of peasant cooperatives, and their eventual replacement by local capitalists.”-Catherine LeGrand, coeditor of Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations

Steve Striffler is Professor of Anthropology and Doris Zemurray Stone Chair in Latin American Studies at the University of New Orleans.

• Acknowledgments 1. Capitalist Transformations Part One: The World of Plantations 2. The Banana Boys Come to Ecuador 3. The Birth of an Enclave: Labor Control and Worker Resistance 4. On the Margins of the Enclave: The Formation of State, Capital, and Community 5. Imagining New Worlds 6. The End of an Enclave Part Two: The Emergence of Contract Farming 7. From Workers to Peasants and Back Again: Agrarian Reform at the Core of an Enclave 8. From Struggles to Movement: The Expansion of Protest and Community Formation 9. The Reconstruction of State, Capital, and Popular Struggle 10. In Search of Workers: Contract Farming and Labor Organizing 11. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

“An innovative contribution to the study of the relationships between popular groups, state agents, and a series of capitalists. Striffler uses a fascinating array of sources such as life histories, local archives and newspapers, and even the internal correspondence between United Fruit officials.”-Carlos de la Torre, author of Populist Seduction in Latin America: The Ecuadorian Experience “This is an ambitious and stimulating story told with verve and momentum. Striffler does a magnificent job of clarifying the causes, forms, and logic of the various movements of workers and peasants that contributed to the United Fruit Company’s abandonment of the plantation, the emergence of peasant cooperatives, and their eventual replacement by local capitalists.”-Catherine LeGrand, coeditor of Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations

Steve Striffler is Professor of Anthropology and Doris Zemurray Stone Chair in Latin American Studies at the University of New Orleans.

• Acknowledgments 1. Capitalist Transformations Part One: The World of Plantations 2. The Banana Boys Come to Ecuador 3. The Birth of an Enclave: Labor Control and Worker Resistance 4. On the Margins of the Enclave: The Formation of State, Capital, and Community 5. Imagining New Worlds 6. The End of an Enclave Part Two: The Emergence of Contract Farming 7. From Workers to Peasants and Back Again: Agrarian Reform at the Core of an Enclave 8. From Struggles to Movement: The Expansion of Protest and Community Formation 9. The Reconstruction of State, Capital, and Popular Struggle 10. In Search of Workers: Contract Farming and Labor Organizing 11. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

“An innovative contribution to the study of the relationships between popular groups, state agents, and a series of capitalists. Striffler uses a fascinating array of sources such as life histories, local archives and newspapers, and even the internal correspondence between United Fruit officials.”-Carlos de la Torre, author of Populist Seduction in Latin America: The Ecuadorian Experience “This is an ambitious and stimulating story told with verve and momentum. Striffler does a magnificent job of clarifying the causes, forms, and logic of the various movements of workers and peasants that contributed to the United Fruit Company’s abandonment of the plantation, the emergence of peasant cooperatives, and their eventual replacement by local capitalists.”-Catherine LeGrand, coeditor of Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations