Fighting in Paradise Labor Unions, Racism, and Communists in the Making of Modern Hawai'i

Name: Fighting in Paradise Labor Unions, Racism, and Communists in the Making of Modern Hawai'i
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ISBN: 9780824835491

ISBN-10: 0824835492

ISBN-13: 9780824835491

Edition: 2011

Authors: Gerald Horne

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Powerful 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…

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List price: $28.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Publication date: 7/31/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 488
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English

Gerald Horne is Moores Professor of History and African-American Studies at the University of Houston. His books include Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois and Race War!: White Supremacy and the Japanese Attack on the British Empire (both available from NYU Press).



A Prefatory Note


Introduction



Confronting Colonial Hawai'i



An Apartheid Archipelago?



The Race of War



The Labor of War



Sugar Strike



Red Scare Rising



Purge



Surge?



State of Anxiety?



Stevedores Strike



Racism-and Reaction



Strife and Strikes



Radicalism on Trial



The Trials of Racism and Radicalism



Upheaval



Radicals Advance-and Retreat



Toward Statehood


Notes


Index