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Reworking Race: The Making of Hawaii´s Interracial Labor Movement
Moon-Kie Jung
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Description for Reworking Race: The Making of Hawaii´s Interracial Labor Movement
Hardback. In the middle decades of the 20th century, Hawai'i changed rapidly from a conservative oligarchy firmly controlled by a Euro-American elite to arguably the most progressive part of the United States. This study explains how Filipinos, Japanese, Portuguese, and others overcame racial divisions and mobilized a mass working-class movement. Num Pages: 320 pages, 15 illustrations, 9 tables. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; JHBL; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 681.
In the middle decades of the twentieth century, Hawai'i 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 mobilized a mass working-class movement. He overturns the unquestioned assumption that this interracial effort traded racial politics for class politics. Instead, ... Read more
In the middle decades of the twentieth century, Hawai'i 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 mobilized a mass working-class movement. He overturns the unquestioned assumption that this interracial effort traded racial politics for class politics. Instead, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231135344
SKU
V9780231135344
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About Moon-Kie Jung
Moon-Kie Jung teaches sociology and Asian American studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Reviews for Reworking Race: The Making of Hawaii´s Interracial Labor Movement
Reworking Race will be recognized eventually as one of the major works on the history of labor in Hawai'i.
Jonathan Y. Okamura The Journal of American History Well written, impressively researched, and theoretically insightful, Reworking Race is an important contribution to the field.
Francisca Oyogoa Industrial and Labor Relations Review A smart, well researched, and amply documented monograph ... Read more
Jonathan Y. Okamura The Journal of American History Well written, impressively researched, and theoretically insightful, Reworking Race is an important contribution to the field.
Francisca Oyogoa Industrial and Labor Relations Review A smart, well researched, and amply documented monograph ... Read more