TY - BOOK AU - Burbach, Roger. AU - Flynn, Patricia. TI - Agribusiness in the Americas SN - 0853455368 AV - HD 9005 .B8 1980 PY - 1980/// CY - New York, N.Y. PB - Monthly Review, North American Congress en Latin American KW - Agroindustria KW - Estados Unidos KW - América Latina N1 - 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 ER -