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Reworking race : the making of Hawaii's interracial labor movement / Moon-Kie Jung

Author
Jung, Moon-Kie
Published
New York : Columbia University Press, [2006]
Copyright Date
©2006
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 292 pages) : illustrations
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- 2. Origins of capital's contentious response to labor -- 3. Race and labor in prewar Hawai'i -- 4. Shifting terrains of the New Deal and World War II -- 5. making of working-class interacialism.
Summary
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.
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ISBN
0231509480 (electronic bk.)
9780231509480 (electronic bk.)
1282897705
9781282897700
9786612897702
6612897708
0231135343
9780231135344
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-279) and index.
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