The company they kept migrants and the politics of gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960

Title:

Author:

Putnam, Lara.

ISBN:

9780807862230

Personal Author:

Putnam, Lara.

Publication Information:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ℗♭2002.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 303 pages) : illustrations, maps

Contents:

The evolution of family practice in Jamaica and Costa Rica -- Sojourners and settlers : economic cycles and traveling lives, 1850s-1940s -- Las princesas del dollar : prostitutes and the banana booms, 1890s-1920s -- CompanÌƒeros : communities and kinship, 1920s-1950s -- Facety women : rudeness and respectability, 1890s-1930s -- Men of respect : authority and violence, 1890s-1950s.

Abstract:

In the 19th century, migrants from the USA, across the Caribbean and beyond poured into Caribbean Central America, drawn by the established banana plantations and economic booms, creating a very mixed population. This work explores the effects of this change on gender, kinship and community.

Corporate Subject:

United Fruit Company -- Employees -- Social conditions.

United Fruit Company. -- Employees -- Costa Rica -- Puerto LimoÌ?n -- Social conditions.

United fruit Company.

United Fruit Company. (OCoLC)fst00529485

Subject Term:

Migrant agricultural laborers -- Costa Rica -- Puerto LimoÌ?n -- Social conditions.

Women -- Costa Rica -- Puerto LimoÌ?n -- Social conditions.

Blacks -- Costa Rica -- Puerto LimoÌ?n -- Social conditions.

Sex role -- Costa Rica -- Puerto LimoÌ?n -- History.

Power (Social sciences) -- Costa Rica -- Puerto LimoÌ?n -- History.

Travailleurs agricoles migrants -- Costa Rica -- Puerto LimoÌ?n -- Conditions sociales.