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| Author: | Bucheli, M. |
| Title: | Multinational corporations, totalitarian regimes and economic nationalism: United Fruit Company in Central America, 1899-1975 |
| Journal: | Business history
2008 : JUL, VOL. 50:4, p. 433-454 |
| Index terms: | multinational companies foreign investment fruit industry business history Honduras Guatemala Costa Rica |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This article reviews the relationship between multinational companies, Central American dictatorship and the labour movements of working class covering the 1899-1975 period. This article uses a North American –based United Fruit Company as a case example to gain a better understanding about the historical development of the relationship and the influence that foreign capital had on political regimes in Honduras, Guatemala and Costa Rica. |
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