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Large and wealthy global companies too often fail to acknowledge environmental responsibility or workers' rights. This book tells the dramatic story of one company-Chiquita Brands International-that decided to change the negative paradigm. Formerly the notorious United Fruit Company, a paternalistic organization that gave the name "Banana Republic" to tropical countries in Central America, Chiquita defied all expectations in the mid-1990's by forming an innovative pact with the Rainforest Alliance that transformed not only the corporation itself but also an important segment of the banana industry. Gary Taylor and Patricia Scharlin reveal the inside story of how corporate executives, banana workers, local leaders, and conservation advocates learned to work together and trust one another. Over the objections of skeptical critics, Chiquita and the Rainforest Alliance established a Better Banana "seal of approval" to certify genuine efforts to improve soil and water quality, ensure rainforest conservation, and enhance worker health and safety. This chronicle of their collaboration, told objectively and with extensive documentation, presents a promising new model of cooperative behavior--a model that shows how multinational companies can become motivated to solve critical global problems.

Banana trade --- Environmental aspects. --- Chiquita Brands International. --- Rainforest Alliance.

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The pesticide dibromochloropropane, known as DBCP, was developed by the chemical companies Dow and Shell in the 1950's to target wormlike, soil-dwelling creatures called nematodes. Despite signs that the chemical was dangerous, it was widely used in U.S. agriculture and on Chiquita and Dole banana plantations in Central America. In the late 1970's, DBCP was linked to male sterility, but an uneven regulatory process left many workers-especially on Dole's banana farms-exposed for years after health risks were known. Susanna Rankin Bohme tells an intriguing, multilayered history that spans fifty years, highlighting the transnational reach of corporations and social justice movements. Toxic Injustice links health inequalities and worker struggles as it charts how people excluded from workplace and legal protections have found ways to challenge power structures and seek justice from states and transnational corporations alike.

Environmental justice. --- Agricultural laborers --- Fruit trade --- Dibromochloropropane --- Fruit industry --- Produce trade --- Fruit --- Eco-justice --- Environmental justice movement --- Global environmental justice --- Environmental policy --- Environmentalism --- Social justice --- Chlorodibromopropane --- DBCP (Chemical) --- Nematocides --- Organohalogen compounds --- Propane --- Health and hygiene. --- Health aspects --- Law and legislation. --- Toxicology. --- Marketing --- Diseases and hygiene --- agriculture. --- american agriculture. --- banana plantations. --- big business. --- central america. --- central american history. --- challenge power structures. --- chemical companies. --- chemicals. --- chiquita. --- corporations. --- dbcp. --- dibromochloropropane. --- dole. --- dow and shell. --- experiments. --- government and governing. --- health inequalities. --- health risks. --- legal protections. --- male sterility. --- nematodes. --- pesticide. --- scientists. --- social justice movements. --- social justice. --- transnational. --- worker rights. --- worker struggles. --- workers. --- wormlike creatures.