Philippe Bourgois's scientific contributions
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... In its pursuit of commercial gain, United Fruit developed a range of strategies to reduce taxes, increase labor discipline, consolidate its landholdings, and maximize its political influence (Bourgois, 2003), creating a governmentality for corporate plantations that echoed the finca order in some ways. To be sure, the plantations did not rely on the same recruitment mechanisms as the oligarchical model (debt peonage, among others), but they did use many of the same techniques employed in the coffee, sugar, and cotton fincas to discipline workers into useful individuals. ...
