The fightback against corporate rule has again come into National focus following the economic collapse of 2008, the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United, the Occupy movement, the Longshoreman's strike in California and the increasing disparity between rich and poor. People are beginning to realize that the way to affect meaningful change is through struggle that interrupts the flow of production. The lessons that can be gained from the Woolworth strike are invaluable in a country...
"[ 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...