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The Japanese Conspiracy: The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920
Masayo Umezawa Duus
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Description for The Japanese Conspiracy: The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920
Paperback. In early 1920 in Hawaii, Japanese sugar cane workers, faced with spiraling living expenses, defiantly struck for a wage increase to $1.25 per day. The event shook the traditional power structure in Hawaii. This book demonstrates that the event had consequences reaching all the way up to the eve of World War II. Editor(s): Duus, Peter. Translator(s): Cary, Beth. Num Pages: 386 pages, 6 b/w photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJK; HBLW; JFSL; KNXB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 481. Good clean copy with some minor reader wear.
In early 1920 in Hawaii, Japanese sugar cane workers, faced with spiraling living expenses, defiantly struck for a wage increase to $1.25 per day. The event shook the traditional power structure in Hawaii and, as Masayo Duus demonstrates in this book, had consequences reaching all the way up to the eve of World War II. By the end of World War I, the Hawaiian Islands had become what a Japanese guidebook called a 'Japanese village in the Pacific', with Japanese immigrant workers making up nearly half the work force on the Hawaiian sugar plantations. Although the strikers eventually capitulated, the ... Read more
In early 1920 in Hawaii, Japanese sugar cane workers, faced with spiraling living expenses, defiantly struck for a wage increase to $1.25 per day. The event shook the traditional power structure in Hawaii and, as Masayo Duus demonstrates in this book, had consequences reaching all the way up to the eve of World War II. By the end of World War I, the Hawaiian Islands had become what a Japanese guidebook called a 'Japanese village in the Pacific', with Japanese immigrant workers making up nearly half the work force on the Hawaiian sugar plantations. Although the strikers eventually capitulated, the ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Number of Pages
386
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520204850
SKU
KTM0009107
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Masayo Umezawa Duus
Masayo Umezawa Duus is a nonfiction writer widely published in Japan. The Japanese edition of The Japanese Conspiracy won the Oya Soichi Prize and the Sincho Gakugei Prize, the two most distinguished nonfiction prizes in Japan. Her works in English include Tokyo Rose: Orphan of the Pacific (1979) and Unlikely Liberators: Men of the 100th and the 442nd (1987).
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