The History of Contract Labor in the Hawaiian Islands

The History of Contract Labor in the Hawaiian Islands

by Katharine Coman
ISBN-10:
1108020712
ISBN-13:
9781108020718
Pub. Date:
09/30/2010
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10:
1108020712
ISBN-13:
9781108020718
Pub. Date:
09/30/2010
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
The History of Contract Labor in the Hawaiian Islands

The History of Contract Labor in the Hawaiian Islands

by Katharine Coman

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Overview

Katharine Coman (1857–1915) was an American historian and economist who served as professor and later dean at Wellesley College. Her works include A History of England (1899), Economic Beginnings of the Far West (1912), and this 1903 monograph. Written following a trip to the islands, the short piece focuses upon the use of imported contract labour in the form of indentured servants. Used primarily in the sugar industry, the system was, in Coman's view, one of which the results 'advance[d] the interests of the labourers quite as much as those of the planters'. The United States' distaste with such arrangements ended this status quo upon annexation, even though the wage system subsequently imposed offered fewer opportunities than before. Covering the decades during which Hawaii underwent massive changes at the hands of Western powers, Coman's work helps illuminate the multiple layers of colonial paternalism in the age of imperialism.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781108020718
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 09/30/2010
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Slavery and Abolition
Edition description: Reissue
Pages: 80
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.40(d)

Table of Contents

Industrial development in the Hawaiian Islands; Modernization of native feudalism; The labor problem; Legalization of contract labor; Chinese coolies; Polynesians; State regulation; Experiments of the Board of Immigration; The Portuguese; A hunt for laborers; Opposition to the Chinese; The Japanese; Industrial effects of annexation; The pro and con of contract labor; Contract labor superseded; The contract company; Tables; Bibliography.
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