Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America

Women banana workers are waging a powerful revolution by making gender equity central in Latin American labor organizing. Their successes disrupt the popular image of the Latin American woman worker as a passive bystander and broadly reimagine the possibilities of international labor solidarity, Over the last few decades, they have organized themselves and gained increasing control over their unions, their workplaces, and their lives. Highly accessible and narrative in style, Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America recounts the growth and history of this vital movement.