During the 1800s, in Hawaii, planters needed more workers to make sugar booming by importing foreign workers. Plantation life in Hawaii in the 1800s was difficult. From 1852 to 1946, the sugar plantations lured 385,000 contract laborers to Hawai'i. Living conditions were harsh, working conditions were rough, and racial differences were unfair. Living conditions were harsh because they lived in crowded, unsanitary work camps. Source 1 included that their new homes were on parched fields with little shade, surrounded by acres and acres of sugarcane that needed to be stripped and cut by hand. (1)Often, two couples would share a 10 foot square room that had a kitchen and a homemade stove. (1)They tried to recreate the village life they left, making small shrines in their homes and crude, homemade hot tubs called furo when men and women soaked after a day in the fields. According to source 2, Chinese lived in grass houses or unpainted wooden buildings with dirt floors. Sometimes as many as 40 men were put into one room. (1)They slept on wooden boards about 2 feet wide and about 3 feet from the floor. …show more content…
(1)The work was tedious beyond measure, and painful.(1) Weed-clearing crew worked all day bent over. (1)Workers who stripped the cane of its sharp-edged leaves went home each afternoon with cuts and blisters on their hands.(1) When it was time to cut the ripened, cane they labored amid clouds of dust that made it difficult to breathe. (1)They also had to deal with wasps that infested the fields. Women worked in the fields, but also did house cleaning and laundry. In source 1 it stated that “Children would attend and often worked 6 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. shifts that their parents
Factory workers worked twelve to fifteen hours a day in hazardous condition. There were no protective rules for women and children and no insurances for job-related accidents or industrial illness. The workers were obliged to trade at company store
Firstly the cotton fields are where almost all the slaves work. They are very long and the slaves have to work there everyday the must have at least the minimum amount of cotton per day if they don’t they get whipped. The only slaves that don’t work there are cooks, or the masters slaves, maids that he give commands around the big house. This setting of the cotton fields is realistic for its time period
Hawaii’s political economy went through some major changes. The development of plantations and tourism paved the path for how Hawaii’s economy is today. I will discuss how tourism, ethnicity, gender and education both constrain and enable opportunities in contemporary Hawaii.
cooked for dinner. Brown soup for the the men who work in the fields. No matter what race, its hard for anyone who does work in the field. The cotton gin is a major factor in the money dream and the mill makes money for a wife and maybe. my wife, who boxed peaches and plums and hoed her dad's fields as a girl.
The working conditions at the time for the majority of laborers was deplorable. Businessmen would take advantage of the laborers and force them to work long hours with severely little
Soon after the missionaries, the sugar cane industry established plantations in the islands and as a result the number of people arriving from North America increased as well. With the different groups arriving in Hawaii and their different languages and language ideologies, various forms of mixed English occurred. Then following the missionaries, laborers from all over the world came to work on the sugarcane plantations (see figure 1). With them came a wide variety of languages. The languages on the plantation with the largest populations of speakers were Cantonese, Portuguese, Japanese, and Filipino.
In the agricultural industry the children would harvest crops and sewing. If the children were working in the mining industry it was very dangerous. The conditions were very poor, it was very dirty and not pleasant. The boys were called “Breaker Boys” they broke down raw coal into different pieces for certain furnaces. The coal bearers would carry coal on their shoulders, and the smallest children worked as trappers, they would open trap doors in the mines to move the coal. As for the manufacturing industry, the children would work in dark and dirty conditions. They worked around sharp tools and and machines, which caused a lot of injuries to them.
Poor Work Conditions in the 1850's Work is a very important part of everyone's life. Work leads to wages, which then leads to the lifestyle you may live. Between 1750 and 1850, work transformed greatly in Europe. It changed all types of aspects of work including where you work, what you do, and how much you may get paid for it.
Ross, Teresa. Field Work and Family Work on Hawaii’s Sugar Plantations. www.litencyc.com. 4 May 2004
In conclusion there was very hard working conditions for men and women, especially children. The 1800’s where very hard times to be working in
For the slaves, it definitely was not an easy life working upon the plantations what so ever, after you had finally made your long journey you would then be set into long and labour intense work unless of course you’re a female or a child. The men would work on things such as the large areas needing to be cropped harvested or anything along those lines, while the
Several people who live today have distaste for manual labor, such as farming, making crafts, laundry, or cleaning. However, all of these tasks were included in the list of daily chores for colonial children. While some detest tiring work, others cannot stand boredom. No matter how tired you were, you would still have to go to church once or twice a day on the Sabbath. The only way to get out of work would be getting sick. Because the colonists’ only medicine was from plants, the chances of dying or being scarred for life were high. If living the 1600s and 1700s could be described in one word, it would be tiresome. After all, diseases were as common as air, everyday was spent working or at least being productive in some way, and if there was time for a respite, it would be on the Sabbath, a day dedicated to God.
Virginia was not the only colony in need of help on the plantations. Rice plantations in the Carolinas became a cash crop in the early 1690's. However, slaves were not first to work on the rice plantations; white indentured servants were. The servants did not last long because of the malaria carrying mosquitoes that infested the swamps, and African Americans were soon enlisted as slaves to work the plantation .
Young girls were not allowed to open the windows and had to breathe in the dust, deal with the nerve-racking noises of the machines all day, and were expected to continue work even if they 're suffering from a violent headache or toothache (Doc 2). The author of this report is in favor of employing young women since he claimed they seemed happy and they loved their machines so they polished them and tied ribbons on them, but he didn 't consider that they were implemented to make their awful situations more bearable. A woman who worked in both factory and field also stated she preferred working in the field rather than the factory because it was hard work but it never hurt her health (Doc 1), showing how dangerous it was to work in a factory with poor living conditions. Poor living conditions were common for nearly all workers, and similar to what the journalist saw, may have been overlooked due to everyone seeming
Hawaii, the most multicultural community having thousands of immigrant laborers from China, Japan, Portuguese, Madeira and the Azores where the sugar growers controlled the islands economy has played a significant role in aiding U.S expand its boundary overseas. At the time, to compete in the global market the expansion overseas was a fundamental requirement that the United States was attempting to achieve i.e. favorable trade conditions.