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  2. Sugar plantations in Hawaii - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, Hawaiian people saw little use for working on the plantations when they could easily subsist by farming and fishing. [9] Plantation owners quickly began importing workers which dramatically changed Hawaiʻi's demographics and is an extreme example of globalization. In 1850 the first imported worker arrived from China. [9]

  3. Oahu sugar strike of 1920 - Wikipedia

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    The Oahu sugar strike of 1920 was a multiracial strike in Hawaii of two unions, the Filipino American Filipino Labor Union and the Japanese American Federation of Japanese Labor. The labor action involved 8,300 sugar plantation field workers out on strike from January to July 1920.

  4. Hawaii Federation of Japanese Labor - Wikipedia

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    The Hawaii Federation of Japanese Labor was a labor union in Hawaii formed in 1921. In the early 1900s, Japanese migrants in Hawaii were the majority of plantation workers in the sugar cane field. These individuals were underpaid and overworked, as well as continuously discriminated against by White people on the Hawaiian Islands.

  5. Puerto Rican immigration to Hawaii - Wikipedia

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    Records show that, in 1902, 34 plantations had 1,773 Puerto Ricans on their payrolls; 1,734 worked as field hands and another 39 were clerks or luna/overseers (foremen). Between 1900 and 1901, 11 trips took place to move Puerto Ricans to Hawaii to work in the fields. [10]

  6. Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association - Wikipedia

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    Plantation owners introduced welfare programs, sometimes out of concern for the workers, but often designed to suit their economic ends. Threats, coercion, and "divide and rule" tactics were employed, particularly to keep the plantation workers ethnically segregated. The HSPA also actively campaigned to bring workers to Hawaii.

  7. Hawaiian sugar strike of 1946 - Wikipedia

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    By 1835, massive plantations on the islands experienced large scale growth. To keep up with the increasing demand for labour, the plantation owners began to import workers in 1865. Immigrant workers and their families flooded in from China, Korea, Portugal, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Japan. Company recruits were extremely selective in ...

  8. 'This was the apocalypse': Why didn't more people from Kuhua ...

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    Initially known as “Mill Camp,” the neighborhood’s first homes were built in the 1920s as temporary housing for workers for the Pioneer Mill Co., a sugar cane plantation.

  9. Japanese in Hawaii - Wikipedia

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    Hawaiian Journal of History. 34. hdl: 10524/201. Liu, John M. "Race, ethnicity and the sugar plantation system: Asian labor in Hawaii, 1850–1900." in Lucie Cheng and Edna Bonacich, eds. Labor immigration under capitalism: Asian workers in the United States before WWII (1984) pp: 186–201. Miyakawa, Tetsuo Scott.