Reworking Race [electronic resource] : The Making of Hawaii's Interracial Labor Movement

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jung, Moon-Kie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diversity in the workplace--Hawaii.

Hawaii--Race relations.

International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union--History.

Labor--Hawaii--History.

Working class--Hawaii.

Local Subjects:

Diversity in the workplace--Hawaii.

Hawaii--Race relations.

International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union--History.

Labor--Hawaii--History.

Working class--Hawaii.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, 2006.

Summary:

In the middle decades of the twentieth century, Hawaii 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

Contents:

Reworking Race; Contents; 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. The Making of Working-Class Interracialism; 6. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

OCLC:

76705642