Reworking Race The Making of Hawaii's Interracial Labor Movement

Name: Reworking Race The Making of Hawaii's Interracial Labor Movement
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ISBN: 9780231135344

ISBN-10: 0231135343

ISBN-13: 9780231135344

Edition: 2005

Authors: Moon-Kie Jung

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In 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, tens of thousands of sugar, pineapple, and longshore workers eagerly joined the left-led International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (ILWU) and challenged their powerful employers. 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…

Book details

List price: $105.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 5/2/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 0.70" wide x 0.93" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English



List of Abbreviations


Acknowledgments


Introduction


Origins of Capital's Contentious


Response to Labor Race and Labor in Prewar


Hawai'i Shifting Terrains of the New Deal and World War II


The Making of Working-Class Interracialism


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index