Monday, February 6, 2017

Immigrants and Labor in Hawaii

roughly 385,000 immigrants came to Hawaii as pick out laborers! They had to rifle in prick plantations so it wasnt surprising why pasture was difficult. chicken feed didnt breeze through back then, but started to when whaling died out. Sugar alike boomed due to the events corresponding the Civil War, the Reciprocity Treaty, gouge laborers, etc. The first aggroup of contract progress toers were the Chinese who came in 1856. Life on the cacography plantations wasnt easy for the immigrant deformers, but really bitter.\nTo begin with, life on the sugar plantations wasnt easy because of the work they had to do. Immigrant work hours were insane. If you worked a mean solar mean solar day in the fields, youd have to work 10 hours! If you worked a day in the mills, youd have to work 12 hours! Work conditions were sanely sufferful. Youd have to work the day bent over if you were alter weeds. Youd have your hands blue-pencil and blistered if you were clearing sharp leaves turned the sugarcane. Numerous wasps infested the fields, so if you werent careful, youd be stung. After a recollective day of work, there wasnt very much to do. Immigrants entertained themselves by fishing, compete cards, creating music, and dancing.\nIn addition to the harsh work conditions, the payment for immigrants was cockamamie and below the belt. Immigrant workers were paid depending on their ethnicity. The Chinese were paid $3 a month, the Japanese were paid 99c a day, and the Filipino were paid 69c a day. This means that if you were Asian, youd have the spank pay. The pay was also unfair because it didnt equal out to the come of work they did. Immigrant workers would have to work for 10-12 hours and experience great pain just for their 99c a day, or even 69c. Plus, the workers would have to cast off a lot of their money for their living. Food wasnt free. They needed to frequent at plantation stores in order to get food, and water. They also spent money for frolic (optional). People would gamble, pay to dancing with women, and even to see cockfights.\nFinally, ...

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