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Book The Sugar Plantation in Hawaii

Download or read book The Sugar Plantation in Hawaii written by J. A. Mollett and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Labor management Relations in Agriculture

Download or read book Labor management Relations in Agriculture written by Herbert Katsuyuki Marutani and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Persistent Poverty

Download or read book Persistent Poverty written by George L. Beckford and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a revised edition of a seminal work on the nature of underdevelopment. It includes a new foreword and appendixes on the significance of plantations to Third World economies and the contribution that George Beckford made to Caribbean economic thought.

Book From King Cane to the Last Sugar Mill

Download or read book From King Cane to the Last Sugar Mill written by C. Allan Jones and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From King Cane to the Last Sugar Mill focuses on the technological and scientific advances that allowed Hawai‘i’s sugar industry to become a world leader and Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company (HC&S) to survive into the twenty-first century. The authors, both agricultural scientists, offer a detailed history of the industry and its contributions, balanced with discussion of the enormous societal and environmental changes due to its aggressive search for labor, land, and water. Sugarcane cultivation in Hawai‘i began with the arrival of Polynesian settlers, expanded into a commercial crop in the mid-1800s, and became a significant economic and political force by the end of the nineteenth century. Hawai‘i’s sugar industry entered the twentieth century heralding major improvements in sugarcane varieties, irrigation systems, fertilizer use, biological pest control, and the use of steam power for field and factory operations. By the 1920s, the industry was among the most technologically advanced in the world. Its expansion, however, was not without challenges. Hawai‘i’s annexation by the United States in 1898 invalidated the Kingdom’s contract labor laws, reduced the plantations’ hold on labor, and resulted in successful strikes by Japanese and Filipino workers. The industry survived the low sugar prices of the Great Depression and labor shortages of World War II by mechanizing to increase productivity. The 1950s and 1960s saw science-driven gains in output and profitability, but the following decades brought unprecedented economic pressures that reduced the number of plantations from twenty-seven in 1970 to only four in 2000. By 2011 only one plantation remained. Hawai‘i’s last surviving sugar mill, HC&S—with its large size, excellent water resources, and efficient irrigation and automated systems—remained generally profitable into the 2000s. Severe drought conditions, however, caused substantial operating losses in 2008 and 2009. Though profits rebounded, local interest groups have mounted legal challenges to HC&S’s historic water rights and the public health effects of preharvest burning. While the company has experimented with alternative harvesting methods to lessen environmental impacts, HC&S has yet to find those to be economically viable. As a result, the future of the last sugar company in Hawai‘i remains uncertain.

Book Capital in Hawaiian Sugar  Its Formation and Relation to Labor and Output  1870 1957

Download or read book Capital in Hawaiian Sugar Its Formation and Relation to Labor and Output 1870 1957 written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main object of this study is to trace the growth of capital on sugar plantations in Hawaii from 1870 to 1957. Capital growth is related to numbers of workers employed and to net output in order to obtain ratios of capital to output and capital to labor. The study ends with a short review of the financing of Hawaiian sugar. It concludes that the industry has been able to finance not only itself but to invest relatively large amounts in other domestic and foreign enterprises.

Book Miscellaneous Publication

Download or read book Miscellaneous Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Grove Farm Plantation

Download or read book Grove Farm Plantation written by Bob Krauss and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dictionary Catalog of the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics Library  University of California  Berkeley

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics Library University of California Berkeley written by Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics. Library and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Social Consequences of Technological Development on Plantations

Download or read book Social Consequences of Technological Development on Plantations written by International Labour Office and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sociological Abstracts

Download or read book Sociological Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Labor in the Territory of Hawaii  1939

Download or read book Labor in the Territory of Hawaii 1939 written by United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Farm Quarterly

Download or read book The Farm Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Native Hawaiians Study Commission  Report on the culture  needs  and concerns of native Hawaiians  pursuant to Public Law 96 565  title III

Download or read book Native Hawaiians Study Commission Report on the culture needs and concerns of native Hawaiians pursuant to Public Law 96 565 title III written by United States. Native Hawaiians Study Commission and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sovereign Sugar

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  • Author : Carol A. MacLennan
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 2014-03-31
  • ISBN : 9780824839499
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Sovereign Sugar written by Carol A. MacLennan and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although little remains of Hawai‘i’s plantation economy, the sugar industry’s past dominance has created the Hawai‘i we see today. Many of the most pressing and controversial issues—urban and resort development, water rights, expansion of suburbs into agriculturally rich lands, pollution from herbicides, invasive species in native forests, an unsustainable economy—can be tied to Hawai‘i’s industrial sugar history. Sovereign Sugar unravels the tangled relationship between the sugar industry and Hawai‘i’s cultural and natural landscapes. It is the first work to fully examine the complex tapestry of socioeconomic, political, and environmental forces that shaped sugar’s role in Hawai‘i. While early Polynesian and European influences on island ecosystems started the process of biological change, plantation agriculture, with its voracious need for land and water, profoundly altered Hawai‘i’s landscape. MacLennan focuses on the rise of industrial and political power among the sugar planter elite and its political-ecological consequences. The book opens in the 1840s when the Hawaiian Islands were under the influence of American missionaries. Changes in property rights and the move toward Western governance, along with the demands of a growing industrial economy, pressed upon the new Hawaiian nation and its forests and water resources. Subsequent chapters trace island ecosystems, plantation communities, and natural resource policies through time—by the 1930s, the sugar economy engulfed both human and environmental landscapes. The author argues that sugar manufacture has not only significantly transformed Hawai‘i but its legacy provides lessons for future outcomes.

Book The Filipino Piecemeal Sugar Strike of 1924 1925

Download or read book The Filipino Piecemeal Sugar Strike of 1924 1925 written by John E. Reinecke and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the traditional sense, the strike was a "piecemeal" affair, lacking clear goals and having virtually no leadership or plans. These young, largely illiterate, Filipinos wrought massive changes in the industry, forcing the plantations into a more modern, industrial mode; into what was widely known thereafter as the Big Five. Evidence from the University of Hawaii's new archive collection, the H.S.P.A. Plantation Archives, not available to Dr

Book Agricultural Economics Bulletin

Download or read book Agricultural Economics Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: