Fighting in Paradise: Labor Unions, Racism, and Communists in the Making of Modern Hawai'i by Gerald Horne

Fighting in Paradise: Labor Unions, Racism, and Communists in the Making of Modern Hawai'i

Gerald Horne

459 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative slow-paced

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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....

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