One hundred years of labor control: Violence, militancy, and the Fairtrade banana commodity chain in Colombia

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2572-2591

  Brown, Sandy ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

Author keywords

Commodity chains; Corporate social responsibility; Fairtrade; Labor

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LABOR; COMMODITY MARKET; CORPORATE STRATEGY; FRUIT PRODUCTION; GLOBAL ECONOMY; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; LABOR MARKET; LABOR STANDARD; MARGINALIZATION; TWENTIETH CENTURY; VIOLENCE;

COLOMBIA; URABA;

EID: 84888426552     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a45691     Document Type: Article

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