Bananeras

Women banana workers—bananeras—are waging a powerful revolution by making gender equity central in Latin American labor organizing.

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Women banana workers in Latin America have organised themselves and gained increasing control over their unions, their workplaces and their lives. Highly accessible and narrative in style, Bananeras recounts the history and growth of this vital movement and shows how Latin American women workers are shaping and broadly reimagining the possibilities of international labour solidarity.