Migration, labor market dynamics, and wage differentials in Hawaii's sugar industry, 1901-1915

TY - CHAP

T1 - Migration, labor market dynamics, and wage differentials in Hawaii's sugar industry, 1901-1915

AU - La Croix, Sumner J.

AU - Fishback, Price

N1 - Funding Information: 1. ‘Proper” treatment was in part determined by the ease with which the planter could replace the slave. 2. See Stewart (1951) for a history of bound Chinese labor in Peru and Hu-Dehart (1993) for Cuba. 3. See Coman (1903) for an early analysis of migrant 4. See La Croix and Grandy (1997) for a discussion provided Hawaii sugar by U.S. tariffs. 5. See Baines (1995) for an excellent overview of European migration to the Americas. See Williamson and Hatton (1998) for comprehensive econometric and simulation analyses of the causesa nd consequenceso f European migration to the Americas. 6. Bushnell (1995), in his careful review of this controversy, tentatively concludes that there were around 300,000 to 400,000 native Hawaiians at contact. 7. See La Croix and Roumasset (1990) for an analysis of the effect population on Hawaii’s economy and political institutions. 8. See La Croix and Grandy (1997) for an analysis of the effects of the reciprocity treaty on Hawaii’s sugar industry and on relations between the United States and Hawaii. 9. Portuguese workers were brought in during the early 1880s to counterbalance the Chinese, but planters found them too expensive and stopped recruiting efforts in the mid-1880s. 10. The 1900 Organic Act, which established a U.S. territorial government in Hawaii, prohibited the Hawaii government from assisting or subsidizing immigration to Hawaii. In 1905 the territorial legislature established a new Board of Immigration to suggest sources of new workers and to provide statistical reports on immigration. Activities were funded by private subscription from sugar planters. In 1907 the U.S. Congress prohibited private contributions to government-run immigration offices, and the Board of Immigration became fully funded by the territorial government. 11. The Foreign Ministry of Japan stopped issuing passports to picture brides from March 1, 1920 after agitation against the practice in California increased in 1919. 12. See Baines (1995, chap. 5) for a discussion of the extensive return migration from the United States back to Europe between 1860 and 1930. 13. The number of Japanese workers on the sugar plantations increased between 1901 and 1905 despite the excess of departures over arrivals. This most likely reflects the entrance of nissei, the children of the first generation of Japanese immigrants (issei),

PY - 2000

Y1 - 2000

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M3 - Chapter

AN - SCOPUS:0010709134

SN - 0762306122

SN - 9780762306121

T3 - Advances in Agricultural Economic History

SP - 31

EP - 71

BT - New Frontiers in Agricultural History

ER -