Reworking race: the making of Hawaii's interracial labor movement
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Main Author: Jung, Moon-Kie (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Columbia University Press c2006
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-279) and index
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 m
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 292 p.)
ISBN:0231135343
0231509480
9780231135344
9780231509480

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