Agribusiness in the Americas / by Roger Burbach and Patricia Flynn.
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New York :
Monthly Review Press : North American Congress on Latin America,
©1980.
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Table of Contents:
- Part One: Agribusiness in the United States : 1. Crisis and change in U.S. agriculture: an overview / by Carol MacLennan and Richard Walker ; 2. Exports for empire: U.S. agricultural policies in the 1970s ; 3. The U.S. grain arsenal: food as a weapon
- Part Two: Agribusiness in Latin America : 4. Modernization capitalist style: an introduction ; 5. The grim reapers: transnationals and their impact ; 6. Latin America in the world market: the ties that bind ; 7. The agricultural workforce: from peasant to proletarian
- Part Three: 8. The Del Monte Corporation: planting the seeds of empire ; 9. Canned imperialism: Del Monte in Mexico ; 10. Modern plantation systems: Del Monte in the Pacific ; 11. A new "banana republic" ; Del Monte in Guatemala ; 12. The grain trade: a seedy business ; 13. Harvest of profits: the world empire of Cargill, Inc.
- Appendix: Multinational investments in Latin America.