Reworking race : the making of Hawaii's interracial labor movement /

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 eager...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jung, Moon-Kie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2006.
Temas:
International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union > History.
International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union
Working class > Hawaii.
Labor > Hawaii > History.
Diversity in the workplace > Hawaii.
Travailleurs > Hawaii.
Travail > Hawaii > Histoire.
Multiculturalisme en milieu de travail > Hawaii.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Diversity in the workplace
Labor
Race relations
Working class
Hawaii > Race relations.
Hawaii > Relations raciales.
Hawaii
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 292 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-279) and index.
ISBN:0231509480
9780231509480
1282897705
9781282897700
9786612897702
6612897708

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