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Fighting in Paradise - Labor Unions, Racism, and Communists in the Making of Modern Hawaii (Hardcover, New)
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Fighting in Paradise - Labor Unions, Racism, and Communists in the Making of Modern Hawaii (Hardcover, New)
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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 found in Hawaii, where the majority
of workers-Hawaiian, Japanese, Chinese, and Filipino in origin-were
routinely subjected to repression and racism at the hands of white
bosses. The wartime civil liberties crackdown brought union
organizing to a halt; but as the war wound down, Hawaii workers'
frustrations boiled over, leading to an explosive success in the
forming of unions. During the 1950s, just as the ILWU began a
series of successful strikes and organizing drives, the union came
under McCarthyite attacks and persecution. In the midst of these
allegations, Hawaii's bid for statehood was being challenged by
powerful voices in Washington who claimed that admitting Hawaii to
the union would be tantamount to giving the Kremlin two votes in
the U.S. Senate, while Jim Crow advocates worried that Hawaii's
representatives would be enthusiastic supporters of pro-civil
rights legislation. Hawaii's extensive social welfare system and
the continuing power of unions to shape the state politically are a
direct result of those troubled times. Based on exhaustive archival
research in Hawaii, California, Washington, and elsewhere, Gerald
Horne's gripping story of Hawaii workers' struggle to unionize
reads like a suspense novel as it details for the first time how
radicalism and racism helped shape Hawaii in the twentieth century.
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