Hawaiʻi Labor History: Recommended Reading List
Hawai’i Labor History: Selected Bibliography
- 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.
- Beechert, Edward. 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 University Press, 2006.
- Kerkvliet, Melinda Tria. Unbending Cane: Pablo Manlapit, A Filipino Labor Leader in Hawai’i. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, 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 Mānoa, 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.
- Puette, William J. Pa’a Hui Unions: The Hawai’i State AFL-CIO, 1966–1991. Honolulu: 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.
- Stern, Bernard. 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.