Buying into the Regime

Grapes and Consumption in Cold War Chile and the United States

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19931925
AutoresHeidi Tinsman (0000-0002-7059-4276, autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Páginas384
Fecha de publicación2013-01-01
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaBuying into the Regime (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/9780822377375
OpenAlexW2477811167
Open LibraryOL29164361M
ISBN9780822377375
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10

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

Clothing · Consumerism · Democracy · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Solidarity · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Law · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Wine Industry and Tourism · Chile · china · Food industry and trade · foreign economic relations · foreign relations · Grape industry · International economic relations · united states