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Author Duus, Masayo, 1938-2022

Title The Japanese conspiracy : the Oahu sugar strike of 1920 / Masayo Umezawa Duus ; translated by Beth Cary and adapted by Peter Duus
Published Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 375 pages) : illustrations
Contents Prologue: a dynamite bomb explodes -- The Japanese village in the Pacific -- A person to be watched -- The Oahu strike begins -- The Japanese conspiracy -- The conspiracy trial -- Reopening Chinese immigration -- The Japanese Exclusion Act
Summary A community of sugar cane workers from Japan strike for a wage increase in 1920 Oahu, straining relations between Japan and the United States, underscoring racial tensions between Japanese labor and the American sugar industry, and leading to the passage of the Japanese Exclusion Act of 1924
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-355) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Strikes and lockouts -- Hawaii -- Oahu -- History
Noncitizens -- Hawaii -- Oahu -- History
Japanese -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Hawaii -- Oahu -- History
Emigration and immigration law -- United States -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Noncitizens
Emigration and immigration law
Diplomatic relations
Japanese -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Social conditions
Strikes and lockouts
SUBJECT Oahu (Hawaii) -- Social conditions
United States -- Foreign relations -- Japan. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140113
Japan -- Foreign relations -- United States
Subject Hawaii -- Oahu
Japan
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520917675
0520917677
0585331197
9780585331195
0520204840
9780520204843
0520204859
9780520204850
Other Titles Nihon no inbō. English