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,...
Charles Hale is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Associate Director of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. He has received research fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is author of Resistance and Contradiction: Miskitu Indians and the Nicaraguan State, 1894-1987 (1994) and co-editor (with Jeffrey Gould and Darío Euraque) of Memorias del Mestizaje: Cultura y Política en Centroamérica, 1920 al Presente (forthcoming)....
