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Buying into the Regime: Grapes and Consumption in Cold War Chile and the United States
Duke University Press, 2014 Cloth: 978-0-8223-5520-5 | Paper: 978-0-8223-5535-9 | eISBN: 978-0-8223-7737-5 Library of Congress Classification HD9259.G7C55 2014 Dewey Decimal Classification 382.41480983
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Buying into the Regime is a transnational history of how Chilean grapes created new forms of consumption and labor politics in both the United States and Chile. After seizing power in 1973, Augusto Pinochet embraced neoliberalism, transforming Chile’s economy. The country became the world's leading grape exporter. Heidi Tinsman traces the rise of Chile's fruit industry, examining how income from grape production enabled fruit workers, many of whom were women, to buy the commodities—appliances, clothing, cosmetics—flowing into Chile, and how this new consumerism influenced gender relations, as well as pro-democracy movements. Back in the United States, Chilean and U.S. businessmen aggressively marketed grapes as a wholesome snack. At the same time, the United Farm Workers and Chilean solidarity activists led parallel boycotts highlighting the use of pesticides and exploitation of labor in grape production. By the early-twenty-first century, Americans may have been better informed, but they were eating more grapes than ever. See other books on: Chile | Consumption | Foreign economic relations | Regime | Tinsman, Heidi See other titles from Duke University Press |
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Buying into the Regime: Grapes and Consumption in Cold War Chile and the United States
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
Duke University Press, 2014
Cloth: 978-0-8223-5520-5
Paper: 978-0-8223-5535-9
eISBN: 978-0-8223-7737-5
Cloth: 978-0-8223-5520-5
Paper: 978-0-8223-5535-9
eISBN: 978-0-8223-7737-5
Buying into the Regime is a transnational history of how Chilean grapes created new forms of consumption and labor politics in both the United States and Chile. After seizing power in 1973, Augusto Pinochet embraced neoliberalism, transforming Chile’s economy. The country became the world's leading grape exporter. Heidi Tinsman traces the rise of Chile's fruit industry, examining how income from grape production enabled fruit workers, many of whom were women, to buy the commodities—appliances, clothing, cosmetics—flowing into Chile, and how this new consumerism influenced gender relations, as well as pro-democracy movements. Back in the United States, Chilean and U.S. businessmen aggressively marketed grapes as a wholesome snack. At the same time, the United Farm Workers and Chilean solidarity activists led parallel boycotts highlighting the use of pesticides and exploitation of labor in grape production. By the early-twenty-first century, Americans may have been better informed, but they were eating more grapes than ever.
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