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Author Kerkvliet, Melinda Tria, author

Title Unbending Cane : Pablo Manlapit, a Filipino Labor Leader in Hawaii / Melinda Tria Kerkvliet
Published Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2002]
©2002

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Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prologue: Fighting the "Goliaths" -- Chapter 1. Dawn (1891-1910) -- Chapter 2. Organizing in Hawai'i (1910-1920) -- Chapter 3. From Organizer to Prisoner (1921-1927) -- Chapter 4. Between Two Paroles (1928-1934) -- Chapter 5. Homeland (1935-1948) -- Chapter 6. Securing Pardon (1949-1952) -- Chapter 7. Dusk (1953-1969). -- Epilogue: Remembrance and Summing Up -- Appendix: Pablo Manlapit's Farewell Statement, -- Notes -- Bibliography -- About the Author
Summary Unbending Cane not only provides a well-researched and accurate historical account of one of the most controversial labor leaders to come out of Hawaii before World War II, but also explores the complex layers of the man who took on the powerful sugar barons to seek justice for those working in Hawaii's cane fields
Notes In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Sep 2018)
Subject Manlapit, Pablo
SUBJECT Manlapit, Pablo fast
Subject Labor leaders -- Hawaii -- Biography
Strikes and lockouts -- Hawaii -- History
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
Labor leaders
Strikes and lockouts
Hawaii
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0824874331
9780824874339