Fighting in paradise : labor unions, racism, and communists in the making of modern Hawaiʻi /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Horne, Gerald (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2011]
Temas:
Labor unions and communism > Hawaii > History.
Labor unions > Hawaii > History.
Syndicats et communisme > Hawaii > Histoire.
Syndicats > Hawaii > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Labor unions.
Labor unions and communism.
Race relations.
Gewerkschaft
Kommunismus
Ethnische Beziehungen
Hawaii > Race relations.
Hawaii > Relations raciales.
Hawaii.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front matter
  • Contents
  • A Prefatory Note
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Confronting Colonial Hawai'i
  • Chapter 2. An Apartheid Archipelago?
  • Chapter 3. The Race of War
  • Chapter 4. The Labor of War
  • Chapter 5. Sugar Strike
  • Chapter 6. Red Scare Rising
  • Chapter 7. Purge
  • Chapter 8. Surge?
  • Chapter 9. State of Anxiety?
  • Chapter 10. Stevedores Strike
  • Chapter 11. Racism-and Reaction
  • Chapter 12. Strife and Strikes
  • Chapter 13. Radicalism on Trial
  • Chapter 14. The Trials of Racism and Radicalism
  • Chapter 15. Upheaval
  • Chapter 16. Radicals Advance-and Retreat
  • Chapter 17. Toward Statehood
  • Notes
  • Index

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