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No Whites, No Asians: Race, Marxism, and Hawai‘i’s Preemergent Working Class

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Moon-Kie Jung
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By the close of the nineteenth century, Hawai‘i had become a newly annexed territory of the United States and was tightly controlled by a cohesive oligarchy of haole sugar capitalists. The “enormous concentration of wealth and power” held by the Big Five sugar factors of Honolulu up until statehood was unparalleled elsewhere in the United States (Cooper and Daws 1985: 3–4). In contrast, native Hawai‘ians and immigrants recruited from China, Portugal, Japan, and the Philippines—in successive and overlapping waves—endured the low wages and poor working and living conditions characteristic of other agricultural export regions.

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Social Science History , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , Fall 1999 , pp. 357 - 393
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