Author: Duus, Masayo Umezawa
Title: The Japanese Conspiracy: The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920
Description: Berkeley [CA], Univ. of California Press, (1999). orig.wrappers. 23x15cm, xi,375 pp, PAPERBACK. Translated by Beth Cary and adapted by Peter Duus.. Minor rubbing. An ink mark to top page-edge. VG. ¶ In early 1920 in Hawaii, Japanese sugar-cane workers, faced with spiralling living expenses, defiantly struck for a wage increase to $1.25 per day. The event shook the traditional power structure in Hawaii and, as this volume demonstrates, had consequences reaching up to the eve of World War II" - Publisher's description.

Keywords: Hawaii, Japanese, Sugar Cane, Labor History, Strikes Strike, Oahu, , ,