Dana Frank

Bananeras

Dana Frank

"[ Bananeras ] is a vital accounting of the struggles still being waged."—Margaret Randall, author of When I Look Into the Mirror and See You: Women, Terror, and Resistance Women banana workers have organized 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 woman workers are shaping and broadly reimagining the possibilities of international labor solidarity. Dana Frank is a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the author of the award-winning Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism .

Women Strikers Occupy Chain Stores, Win Big

Dana Frank

The fightback against corporate rule has again come into National focus following the economic collapse of 2008, the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United, the Occupy movement, the Longshoreman's strike in California and the increasing disparity between rich and poor. People are beginning to realize that the way to affect meaningful change is through struggle that interrupts the flow of production. The lessons that can be gained from the Woolworth strike are invaluable in a country whose economy is driven by service sector employment. The women who fought Woolworth executives and won beter pay, hours, and treatment confronted one of the corporate giants of the early 20th century. These women defied that odds and helped inspire the women's liberation movement. We are seeing a reemergence of struggle around women's issues– «Slutwalk» is prime example.