Agribusiness in the Americas / by Roger Burbach and Patricia Flynn.

Acknowledgments, 7 -- Introduction, 9 -- Part One: Agribusiness in the United States -- 1. Crisis and Change in U.S. Agriculture: An Overview / by Carol MacLennan and Richard Walker, 20 -- 2. Exports for Empire: U.S. Agricultural Policies in the 1970s, 41 -- 3. The U.S. Grain Arsenal: Food as a Weapon, 62 -- Part Two: Agribusiness in Latin America -- 4. Modernization Capitalist Style: An Introduction, 82 -- 5. The Grim Reapers: Transnationals and Their Impact, 107 -- 6. Latin America in the World Market: The Ties that Bind, 127 -- 7. The Agricultural Workforce: From Peasant to Proletarian, 139 -- Part Three: The Corporate Connection -- 8. The Del Monte Corporation: Planting the Seeds of Empire, 164 -- 9. Canned Imperialism: Del Monte in Mexico, 182 -- 10. Modern Plantation Systems: Del Monte in the Pacific, 192 -- 11. A New "Banana Republic": Del Monte in Guatemala, 206 -- 12. I he Grain Trade: A Seedy Business, 220 -- 13. Harvest of Profits: The World Empire of Cargill, Inc., 230 -- Appendix: Multinational Investments in Latin America, 253 -- Notes, 283 -- Index, 305.