· Oahu, Hawaii

Great Japanese Plantation Strike

resistance

About 7,000 Japanese plantation workers on Oahu struck for months demanding pay equal to that of other ethnic groups doing the same work-the islands' first large-scale organized plantation strike.

Communities
  • Japanese American
Topics
  • labor
Event type
  • labor action
Places
  • Hawaii

Sources

  • hawaii.edu hawaii.edu/uhwo/clear/home/HawaiiLaborHistory.html
  • civilbeat.org civilbeat.org/2024/09/oahus-first-island-wide-plantation-strike-ended-in-failure-but-it-changed-hawaii-forever