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Michael, Institutional Racism: The Case of Hawaii
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in Hawaii.
Hanagan,
Micheal P., "Labor History and the New Migration History:
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of transnationalism on new intepertations of labor history.
Hawaii
Laborers Association, Facts About the Strike on
Sugar Plantations in Hawaii (Honolulu: Hawaii
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on labor conditions on Hawaiian sugar plantations.
Heilman,
Grace E., "Early History of the Labor Movement in Los
Angeles," Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania,
1949. Information on anti-Chinese agitation in 1885 and
1886.
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Herbert, "Anti-Oriental Agitation and the Rise of Working-Class
Racism," Society 10:2 (1973):43-54. Analysis
of impact of anti-Asian sentiments on shaping white racism
among U.S. workers.
Hill,
Herbert, "In the Age of Gompers and After Racial
Practices of Organized Labor," New Politics
4 (1965). Impact of anti-Asian racism on the development
of U.S. unions.
Hill,
Herbert, "Race and Ethnicity in Organized Labor: The
Historical Sources of Resistance to Affirmative Action,"
Journal of Intergroup Relations 12 (Winter 1984).
Roots of contemporary opposition of some unions to affirmative
action are in the exclusion policies of early unions against
workers of color in the U.S.
Hokubei
Okinawa Club, trans. by Kobashigawa, History of the Okinawans
in North America (Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies
Center, 1988). Includes information on labor organizing
by early Okinawan immigrants.
Hom,
Marlon K., Songs of Gold Mountain: Cantonese Rhymes from
San Francisco Chinatown (Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1987). Includes personal perspectives of early Chinese
immigrant laborers.
Hom,
Shirley, "Working in a Cannery," Asian Women
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Hon,
Kee Chak, "There Is No Reason or Justice," Nation
(January 23, 1924). Protest from the Chinese Seamens
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Workers of the World (IWW).
Hsiao,
Andrew, "The Hidden History of Asian-American Activism
in New York City," Social Policy 28:4 (Summer
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Chinese immigrant activists and Asian American activists
today.
Huang,
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the Lien Yi Society), edited by Kuang Xiaoan (Hong
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of Chinese seamen with branches throughout the world.
Hyung,
June Moon, "The First Attempt to Obtain Korean Laborers
for Hawaii, 1896-1897," in Kim, Hung-chan, ed., The
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on the working lives of early Korean immigrants.
Ichihashi,
Yamato, Japanese in the United States (Stanford:
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immigrants.
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the labor exploitation of the first Japanese women in the
U.S.
Ichioka,
Yuji, "Asian Immigrant Coal Miners and the United Mine
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1907," Amerasia Journal 6:2 (1979):1-24. Union
leaders confront challenge of dealing with Japanese immigrant
workers.
Ichioka,
Yuji, "A Buried Past: Early Issei Socialists and the
Japanese Community," Amerasia Journal (1971).
Activities of early Japanese immigrant socialists, including
labor organizing.
Ichioka,
Yuji, compiler, A Buried Past: An Annotated Bibliography
of the Japanese American Research Project Collection
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on early labor struggles of Japanese immigrants.
Ichioka,
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foremost historian on Japanese Americans who explains how
he came to study Japanese Americans as active makers of
their own history and not objects acted upon by others.
Ichioka,
Yuji, "An Instance of Private Japanese Diplomacy: Suzuki
Bunji, Organized American Labor, and Japanese Immigrant
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American union leaders confront the "question"
of Japanese immigrant workers.
Ichioka,
Yuji, The Issei: The World of the First Generation Japanese
Immigrants, 1885-1924 (New York: New Press, 1988). The
author defines early Japanese immigrant history as essentially
a labor history and studies the early immigrants from the
perspective of actors making their own history rather than
objectives acted upon by others such as the anti-Japanese
U.S. union movement.
Ichioka,
Yuji, Yasuo Sakata, Nobuya Tsuchida, and Eri Yasuhara, A
Buried Past: An Annotated Bibliography of the Japanese American
Research Project Collection (Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1974). Includes information about early
labor struggles of Japanese immigrants.
Ichioka,
Yuji and Eiichiro Azuma, A Buried Past II: A Sequel to
the Annotated Bibliography of the Japanese American Research
Project Collection (Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American
Studies Center, 1999). Includes information about early
labor struggles of Japanese immigrants.
Ignatiev,
Noel, "The White Worker and the Labor Movement in Nineteenth
Century America," Race Traitor 3 (Spring 1994).
Development of white worker consciousness through racism
against workers of other races.
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Kiyoshi, "Unionization and the Plantation," Social
Process in Hawaii 15 (1951). Labor struggles of Asian
immigrants.
Ingels,
Helen Havens, "The History of the Workingmens
Party of California," M.A. thesis, University of California,
Berkeley, 1919. Includes information on the Partys
anti-Asian racism toward immigrant workers.
Ito,
Kazuo, Issei: A History of Japanese Immigrants
in North America (Seattle, 1973). Japanese American
history from the perspective of a researcher from Japan.
Janis,
Ralph, "The Watsonville Anti-Filipino Riot of 1930:
A Case Study of the Great Depression and Ethnic Conflict
in California," Southern California Quarterly
61 (1979). Anti-Filipino violence by white workers.
Jenkins,
J. Craig, The Politics of Insurgency: The Farm Worker
Movement in the 1960s (New York: Columbia University
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union (UFW).
Jensen,
Joan, Passage from India: Asian Indian Immigrants in
North America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988).
History of immigrants from India.
Jo,
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(Tokyo: Yushindo, 1967, 1970). An autobiography of an Issei
Communist.
Johnannesson,
Edward, The Hawaiian Labor Movement, A Brief History
(Boston: Bruce Hunphier, Inc., 1956). Overview of labor
struggles in Hawaii.
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Leigh D., "Equal Rights and the Heathen Chinee:
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and exclusion of Chinese immigrants.
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Donald D. and Michael F. Miller, Hawaiis Own: A
History of the Hawaii Government Employees Association,
AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO, 1934-1984 (Honolulu: Hawaii
Government Employees Association, 1986). Summary of public
service employees union in Hawaii.
Jules,
Alexander Karlin, "The Anti-Chinese Outbreak in Seattle,
1885-1886, "Pacific Historical Quarterly 39
(1948). Anti-Chinese violence by white workers.
Jules,
Alexander Karlin, "The Anti-Chinese Outbreak in Tacoma,
1885," Pacific Historical Review 23 (August
1954). Violence against Chinese construction workers.
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Moon-Kie, "No Whites, No Asians: Race, Marxism, and
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traditional Marxist perspective on labor in Hawaii.
Kearney,
Denis, Denis Kearney and Relations to the Workingmens
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describing the anti-Chinese viewpoint of labor leader Denis
Kearney.
Kent,
Noel, Hawaii: Islands under the Influence (New York:
Monthly Review Press, 1983). Impact of western influences
on people of Hawaii.
Kaikyusen
(The class struggle), 1928-1930. Monthly published in San
Francisco and edited by Kenmochi Sadaichi in the late 1920s.
From March 5, 1928, the title changed to Zaibei Rodo
Shimbun (The Japanese worker in America), the official
publication of the Zaibei Nihonjin Rodo Kyokai (Japanese
workers association of America). From January 10,
1930, it became a semi-monthly under a new title, Rodo
Shimbun, the official publication of the Japanese section
of the American Communist Party.
Kale,
Madhavi, "Casting Labor: Empire and Indentured Migration
from India to the British Caribbean, 1837-1845," Ph.D.
dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1992. Migration
of early Indian laborers.
Kashu
Nihonjin Kutsuko Domeikai, Kashu Nihonjin Kutsudo Domeikai
Kaiho (Bulletin of the California Japanese shoemakers
league) (1909). The league was founded in 1893 and headquartered
in San Francisco.
Kaufman,
Stuart B., The Samuel Gompers Paper, vol. 1: The Making
of Union Leader, 1850-86 (Champaign: University of Illinois
Press, 1989). Includes information of the AFL leaders
sentiments opposing inclusion of Asian immigrant workers
in unions.
Kerkvliet,
Melinda Tria, For Justice and a Square Deal: Biography
of Pablo Manlapit, Filipino Labor Leader in Hawaii (Honolulu:
Filipino American Historical Society of Hawaii, 2000).
Profile of the Filipino immigrant leader who led the 1924
plantation strike.
Kerkvliet,
Melinda Tria, "Pablo Manlapits Fight for Justice,"
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of Filipino immigrant who led the 1924 plantation strike.
Kiang,
Ying-Chen, "The Chinese Garment Industry in San Francisco,"
Association of American Geographers, Annals 49:2
(June 1959). Describes organization of the garment industry.
Kim,
Elaine H. and Eui-Young Yu, East to America: Korean American
Life Stories (New York: New Press, 1996). Collection
of personal life histories of Korean Americans, including
early immigrants.
Kim,
Hyung-chan and Wayne Pattterson, The Koreans in America,
1882-1974 (Dobbs Ferry, New York, 1974). Includes information
about working lives of early Korean immigrants.
Kittelson,
David J., The Hawaiians: An Annotated Bibliography(Honolulu:
Social Science Research Institute, University of Hawaii,
1985). Includes information about the working lives of Hawaiians.
Knight,
H. L., The Great Problem of the Day. The Labor Agitators;
or, the Battle for Bread. The Party of the Future; the Workingmens
Party of California (San Francisco: George W. Greene,
1879). Pamphlet; includes information about the Partys
opposition to Chinese immigrant workers.
Kochi,
Paul, Imin no Aiwa (An immigrants sorrowful
tale), translated by Ben Kobashigawa (Los Angeles, 1978).
An Okinawan immigrants story about life in America.
Kodama-Nishimoto,
Michi, Warren S. Nishimoto, and Cynthia A. Oshiro, Hanahana:
An Oral History Anthology of Hawaiis Working People
(Honolulu: Ethnic Studies Oral History Project, University
of Hawaii, 1984). Labor struggles in Hawaii.
Kotani,
Roland, "The Labor Radical," in The Japanese
in Hawaii: A Century of Struggle (Honolulu: Hawaii
Hochi, 1985). Profile of Jack Kawano.
Kraus,
George, "Chinese Laborers and the Construction of the
Central Pacific," Utah Historical Quarterly
37 (1969). Harsh labor conditions of Chinese railroad workers.
Kumiai
Jiho (The union times). Bi-monthly publication from
San Francisco; the official publication of the Press Workers
Union which was organized from the strike by Nichibei
Shimbun workers in 1931.
Kung
Sing 1 (march1, 1924) and 2 (April 1, 1924). Detailed
history of the Workers League of America in San Francisco
Chinatown.
Kwong,
Peter, Chinatown, N.Y.: Labor & Politics, 1930-1950
(New York, 1979). Covers the Chinese Seamens Union
and Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance.