Afro-jamaican traditions and labor organizing on united fruit company plantations in costa rica, 1910

Journal of Social History

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 837-855

  Chomsky, Avi ^a  

^a BATES COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 84942242206     PISSN: 00224529     EISSN: 15271897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jsh/28.4.837     Document Type: Article

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