Author Pages | Dana Frank
Biography
Dana Frank is a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism (Beacon, 1999); Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919–1929 (Cambridge, 1994); and, with Howard Zinn and Robin D.G. Kelley, Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century (Beacon, 2001). Her work has also appeared in The Nation, the Washington Post, In These Times, New Labor Forum, and numerous scholarly journals. Long active in labor solidarity work, since 2000 she has worked with the US Labor Education in the Americas Project (US/LEAP) in support of the banana unions in Latin America.
Read more about Frank's research for Bananeras at UC Santa Cruz Currents Online.
South End Press titles by Dana Frank
Bananeras
Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America |
El Poder de las Mujeres Es Poder Sindical
La Transformación de los Sindicatos Bananeros en América Latina |
Bananeras
Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America |