The Aloha Trade

Bernard (Bernie) W. Stern: Professionally active in labor relations for well over 50 years, he headed Benefit Plan Consultants, a company that designed and supervised health and pension plans for labor and management groups. Before coming to Hawaiʻi in 1962, he was a negotiator and researcher for the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union and later a labor economist for the National Labor Relations Board.

From 1962-1965 he was an assistant to Art Rutledge. For twenty years after that, he worked as a consultant and mediator to Hawai’i’s labor community. In retirement, he began writing labor history. His first book, Rutledge Unionism (1986), described labor relations in Honolulu’s transit industry. Sadly, he died May 4, 1988, shortly after completing work on this study which was published posthumously.

Cite this work as: The Aloha Trade: Hawaiʻi’s Hotel Industry, 1941-1987 by Bernard W. Stern (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i, Center for Labor Education & Research, 1989).

It was first published when the Center for Labor Education & Research was part of the College of Continuing Education and Community Service at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa.

In 1996 the Center was transferred to the University of Hawai’i – West O’ahu.

To order a hard copy of the original publication, click on the cover graphic above.

NOTE: At the time of publication, diacritical marks (the ‘okina and kahakō), now accepted as appropriate for Hawaiian words and names, were not included; whereas this online version does include them to the extent html codes allow, except when rendering the names of hotels, ships, institutions and/or organizations that did not at the time employ them.

In addition, the original work employed footnotes that used symbols and not numbers at the bottom of each page. This online version does not retain page divisions, so all footnote have been converted to sectional endnotes.