Over a 40-year period, agrarian reform and counter-reform, state subsidies and neoliberal restructuring in Chile have combined with global technological advances and shifting food tastes to fuel the growth and maturation of a highly profitable fresh fruit sector. The great majority of its work force has been comprised of young and middle-aged women whose situation has changed considerably since their initial portrayal in the 1980s as prototypical victims of neoliberalism.
W. L. Goldfrank is a professor of Sociology and Latin American & Latino Studies at UC Santa Cruz,...
Jonathan Fox is Professor and Chair of the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies at UC Santa Cruz. He has published widely on the issues of democratization and the strengthening of civil society, particularly in Mexico. This research has been supported with grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Heinz Foundation, and the North-South Center. Of his many publications, he most recently co-edited Cross-Border Dialogues: Mexico-U.S. Social Movement Networking.
