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Item specifics
- Condition
- Book Title
- Fighting in Paradise: Labor Unions, Racism, and Communists in the
- Publication Date
- 2011-07-31
- Pages
- 472
- ISBN
- 9780824835026
- Subject Area
- Political Science, Business & Economics, History
- Publication Name
- Fighting in Paradise : Labor Unions, Racism, and Communists in the Making of Modern Hawai'i
- Publisher
- University of Hawaii Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Subject
- United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Labor, Oceania
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Weight
- 32.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 472 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
ISBN-10
0824835026
ISBN-13
9780824835026
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99534496
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
472 Pages
Publication Name
Fighting in Paradise : Labor Unions, Racism, and Communists in the Making of Modern Hawai'i
Language
English
Subject
United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Labor, Oceania
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, Business & Economics, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight
32.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2011-008965
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
331.8809969
Synopsis
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 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.
LC Classification Number
HD6517.H3H67 2011
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