HAWAIʻI LABOR HISTORY
Recommended Reading List
Center for Labor Education & Research
University of Hawaiʻi - West Oʻahu

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Beechert, Edward. Aupuni I Lā'au: A History of Hawai'i's Carpenters Union, Local 745. University of Hawai'i, Center for Labor Education and Research, 1993.
 

-----------. Working in Hawaii: A Labor History. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1985.
 

Coman, Katherine. "The History of Contract Labor in the Hawaiian Islands," American Economic Association, 3rd series, IV, 1903.
 

Duus, Masayo Umezawa. The Japanese Conspiracy: The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920 . Translated by Beth Cary and adapted by Peter Duus. University of California Press, 1999.
 

Fuchs, Lawrence H. Hawaii Pono: An Ethnic and Political History. Honolulu: The Bess Press, 1961.
 

Johannessen, Edward. The Hawaiian Labor Movement: A Brief History. Boston: Bruce Humphries, Inc., 1956.
 

Johnson, Donald D. and Michael Miller. Hawaii's Own: A History of the Hawaii Government Employees Association. Honolulu: Hawaii Government Employees Association, 1986.
 

Jung, Moon-Kie. Reworking Race: The Making of Hawaii's Interracial Labor Movement. New York: Columbia Univerity Press, 2006.
 

Kerkvliet, Melinda Tria. Unbending Cane: Pablo Manlapit, A Filipino Labor Leader in Hawai'i. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Office of Multicultural Studies, 2002.
 

Kodama-Nishimoto, Michi, Warren S. Nishimoto and Cynthia A. Oshiro. Hanahana: An Oral History Anthology of Hawaii's Working People. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i at Mnoa, Ethnic Studies History Project, 1984.
 

Kubota, Gaylord C. "The Lynching of Katsu Goto: The tragic fate of a successful "first ship" Japanese immigrant," Hawai'i Chronicles: Island History from the Pages of Honolulu Magazine, Bob Dye, ed. (University of Hawai'i Press, 1996) 197-214.
 

Puette, William J. The Hilo Massacre: Hawaii's Bloody Monday August 1st, 1938. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i, Center for Labor Education and Research, 1988.
 

-----------. Pa'a Hui Unions: The Hawai'i State AFL-CIO, 1966-1991. Honolulu, Hawai'i: Hawai'i State AFL-CIO, 1991.
 

Reinecke, John E. The Filipino Piecemeal Sugar Strike of 1924-1925 Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press,1996.
 

Stern, Bernard. Rutledge Unionism: Labor Relations in the Transit Industry. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i, Center for Labor Education and Research, 1986.
 

-----------. The Aloha Trade: Labor Relations in Hawaii's Hotel Industry 1941-1987. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i, Center for Labor Education and Research, 1989.
 

Takaki, Ronald. Pau Hana: Plantation Life and Labor in Hawaii, 1835-1920. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1983.
 

Zalburg, Sanford. A Spark Is Struck! Jack Hall & The ILWU in Hawaii. Honolulu Advertiser, 1979; Honolulu: Watermark Publishing, 2007 (2nd Printing).
 

"Report of Elwyn J. Eagen on the Hawaiian Islands" (From Special House Committee Hearings, 76th Congress on the National Labor Relations Act pursuant to H. Res. 258, 12-11-39) May 3, 1940, V 22, Exhibit 1283, pp. 4598-4624.