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Book Title
Fighting in Paradise: Labor Unions, Racism, and Communists in the
Publication Date
2011-07-31
Pages
472
ISBN
9780824835026
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Author
Gerald Horne
Item Length
9in
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Genre
Business & Economics, History, Political Science
Topic
Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Labor, Oceania
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
32.1 Oz
Number of Pages
472 Pages

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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 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.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
ISBN-10
0824835026
ISBN-13
9780824835026
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99534496

Product Key Features

Author
Gerald Horne
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Labor, Oceania
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Genre
Business & Economics, History, Political Science
Number of Pages
472 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
32.1 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Hd6517.H3h67 2011
Publication Name
Fighting in Paradise : Labor Unions, Racism, and Communists in the Making of Modern Hawai'i
Copyright Date
2011
Lccn
2011-008965
Dewey Decimal
331.8809969
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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