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A Spark is Struck: Jack Hall and the Ilwu in Hawaii
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by Sanford Zalburg
Sales Rank: 732448
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List Price: $17.95
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 558 pages
Published by: Watermark Publishing; Second edition October 1, 2007
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0979064783
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0979064784
Book Dimensions:
9 x 6 x 1.1 inches
Weighs: 2 pounds
Product Review
I have to admit that I had A Spark Is Struck in a pile of books on a chair for a long time before I picked it up. The story behind Hawaii's International Longshore & Warehouse Union? But author Sanford Zalburg immediately reminded me that, when it's well-told, History makes for zesty reading. Take, for example, the 1946 sugar plantation-workers' strike, nearly undone by a white-rice shortage. "Locals 150 and 152 do not want brown [rice] under any circumstances," a union leader frantically reported at the time.
It doesn't hurt that Zalburg's main subject, union leader and labor-movement activist Jack Hall, is so interesting. This is a guy who ran away from home at age 12 and by 17 was a seaman alighting in Honolulu. Hall's audacity helped give workers new strength, but drinking problems plagued him. "Like five blind men touching the elephant, your opinion of him depended on where you touched him," notes Zalburg.
A Spark Is Struck was originally published in 1979, but has been re-released by Watermark Publishing (a sister company to PacificBasin, which owns this magazine). In 2008, it still seems fresh. --Kathryn Drury Wagner, HONOLULU Magazine
Product Description
Jack Hall came ashore at Honolulu Harbor as an insignificant seaman and quickly took his place at the forefront of those who forged Hawaii's destiny. A Spark is Struck! is Hall's story—and the story behind the International Longshore & Warehouse Union in the Hawaiian Islands. Together, the man and the union helped incite a bloodless revolution, transforming Hawaii from the neo-colonialist paradise of a wealthy few to one of the most liberal states in the nation. It was an era of landmark events: the Red Scare, the consolidation of power, major labor strikes in the fields and on the docks. Here is the inside story of a power broker's career and a union s role in shaping today's Hawaii.
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