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Pau Hana: Plantation Life and Labor in Hawaii 1835-1920
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by Ronald Takaki
Sales Rank: 1066620
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$4.58
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on 4-17-2008.
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 227 pages
Published by: Univ of Hawaii Pr October 1983
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0824808657
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0824808655
Book Dimensions:
9.7 x 6.4 x 0.8 inches
Weighs: 1 pounds
Reader Reviews
This review is from: Pau Hana: Plantation Life and Labor in Hawaii, 1835-1920 (Paperback)
In many ways it was the plantation labor experience that makes Hawaii unique in the world. Sugar plantations were very labor-intensive operations and workers were needed wherever they could be obtained. Management couldn't mistreat the plantation workers because the workers were so essential. But as plantation labor matured, they began to assert more demands for higher wages and better treatment. Takaki tries to be fair to all sides in the "contested territory" of the plantation. There is a myth in Hawaii that local Hawaiians were unsuited to plantation labor -- depending on your prejudices, Hawaiians were either too lazy or too smart to work so hard. Takaki observes that the indigenous labor structure of Hawaii wasn't any less exploitative than the plantation system, and native Hawaiians did work on the plantations, sometimes as lunas (field bosses). Problem was, the labor needs of the plantations exceeded the ability of the local population to supply, especially after the calamitous die-off of locals from imported diseases. I wish Takaki had not stopped at 1920. The history of plantation labor from then until it finally disappeared in the 1960s and 70s could be another book. The unhappy irony of the Hawaiian plantation system is that once the planters provided humane wages and living conditions the Hawaiian plantations could no longer compete with cheap-labor producers elsewhere in the world where workers are treated more poorly. Takaki's book helps explain why the word "Hawaiian" today can apply to a person of a dozen ethnic backgrounds, or a blend of any combination of them, including ethnic Hawaiian.
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