Working in Hawaii
Author: Edward D. Beechert
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 1985-01-01
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780824808907
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Author: Edward D. Beechert
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 1985-01-01
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780824808907
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edward Johannessen
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Published: 1956
Total Pages: 192
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Published: 1948
Total Pages: 238
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edward D. Beechert
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 58
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKManual and guide for labor organizations in Hawaiian Island on the writing of their own labor union history.
Author: Gerald Horne
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2011-07-31
Total Pages: 473
ISBN-13: 0824860217
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPowerful labor movements played a critical role in shaping modern Hawaii, beginning in the 1930s, when International Longshore and Warehousemen’s Union (ILWU) representatives were dispatched to the islands to organize plantation and dock laborers. They were stunned by the feudal conditions they found in Hawaii, where the majority of workers—Hawaiian, Japanese, Chinese, and Filipino in origin—were routinely subjected to repression and racism at the hands of white bosses. The wartime civil liberties crackdown brought union organizing to a halt; but as the war wound down, Hawaii workers’ frustrations boiled over, leading to an explosive success in the forming of unions. During the 1950s, just as the ILWU began a series of successful strikes and organizing drives, the union came under McCarthyite attacks and persecution. In the midst of these allegations, Hawaii’s bid for statehood was being challenged by powerful voices in Washington who claimed that admitting Hawaii to the union would be tantamount to giving the Kremlin two votes in the U.S. Senate, while Jim Crow advocates worried that Hawaii’s representatives would be enthusiastic supporters of pro–civil rights legislation. Hawaii’s extensive social welfare system and the continuing power of unions to shape the state politically are a direct result of those troubled times. Based on exhaustive archival research in Hawaii, California, Washington, and elsewhere, Gerald Horne’s gripping story of Hawaii workers’ struggle to unionize reads like a suspense novel as it details for the first time how radicalism and racism helped shape Hawaii in the twentieth century.
Author: Moon-Kie Jung
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2010-02-26
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 0231135351
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the middle decades of the twentieth century, Hawai'i changed rapidly from a conservative oligarchy firmly controlled by a Euro-American elite to arguably the most progressive part of the United States. Spearheading the shift were tens of thousands of sugar, pineapple, and dock workers who challenged their powerful employers by joining the left-led International Longshoremen and Warehousemen's Union. In this theoretically innovative study, Moon-Kie Jung explains how Filipinos, Japanese, Portuguese, and others overcame entrenched racial divisions and successfully mobilized a mass working-class movement. He overturns the unquestioned assumption that this interracial effort traded racial politics for class politics. Instead, the movement "reworked race" by incorporating and rearticulating racial meanings and practices into a new ideology of class. Through its groundbreaking historical analysis, Reworking Race radically rethinks interracial politics in theory and practice.
Author: Hawaii. Dept. of Labor and Industrial Relations. Research and Statistics Office
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Published: 1946
Total Pages: 736
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Immigration and Naturalization
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Published: 1921
Total Pages: 742
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHearings before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Immigration and Naturalization on the subject of labor problems in Hawaii conducted in two parts.
Author: Gerald Horne
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 459
ISBN-13: 9780824870294
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPowerful labor movements played a critical role in shaping modern Hawaii, beginning in the 1930s, when International Longshore and Warehousemen’s Union (ILWU) representatives were dispatched to the islands to organize plantation and dock laborers. They were stunned by the feudal conditions they found in Hawaii, where the majority of workers—Hawaiian, Japanese, Chinese, and Filipino in origin—were routinely subjected to repression and racism at the hands of white bosses.The wartime civil liberties crackdown brought union organizing to a halt; but as the war wound down, Hawaii workers’ frustrations boiled over, leading to an explosive success in the forming of unions. During the 1950s, just as the ILWU began a series of successful strikes and organizing drives, the union came under McCarthyite attacks and persecution. In the midst of these allegations, Hawaii’s bid for statehood was being challenged by powerful voices in Washington who claimed that admitting Hawaii to the union would be tantamount to giving the Kremlin two votes in the U.S. Senate, while Jim Crow advocates worried that Hawaii’s representatives would be enthusiastic supporters of pro–civil rights legislation.Hawaii’s extensive social welfare system and the continuing power of unions to shape the state politically are a direct result of those troubled times. Based on exhaustive archival research in Hawaii, California, Washington, and elsewhere, Gerald Horne’s gripping story of Hawaii workers’ struggle to unionize reads like a suspense novel as it details for the first time how radicalism and racism helped shape Hawaii in the twentieth century.