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
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
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
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.
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
The poem “My Boy” shows how long the work hours were by saying, “[Before] dawn my labor drives me forth. Tis night when I am free; A stranger am I to my child; And he one to me.” (Document 2) From dawn to night was a normal time period that people would work and she would come home to her family where they were strangers. The long hours were not only tiring on the body, but also put a strain on the quantity and quality of time spent with family. The hours were not easy labor either, the testimony of Elizabeth Bentley shows that labor was difficult and the bosses worked the employees
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
They were forced to go out to work and make a rapid transition into adulthood. In these work places they, like any other adult, had a limited amount of time to eat. Patience Kershaw, a miner at the age of 17 recalls having cake for dinner- in inadequate dinner- and she does “not stop or rest at any time for the purpose” referring to her inability to eat throughout the day . She of course is not the only one, Elizabeth Bentley who works in the mills was asked whether she had the opportunity to eat in the factory. The 23 year old who began working at the age of 6 replied with a “no” saying how she had little to eat. The human rights were furthermore diminished as I read further on about the consequences there were if a child were to arrive late to work or became drowsy. Clearly the long hours and often times the long travel from home to work would severely tire anyone, to keep the kids under control and alert while working, the over lookers resorted to strapping them “when they became drowsy”. Matthew Crabtree explains the dread that these kids had of getting beaten, due to the fear they had we can infer that the means of physical abuse was prevalent in these factories. In the mines the young girls and women had to adapt to the conditions of their workplace. The vigorous lifting and loading was a strenuous activity done by both sexes, males worked naked to combat heat while females also worked
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.
Since 1840 the Hawaiian Islands have been an escape to a tropical paradise for millions of tourists. People all over the world encounter alluring, romanticized pictures of Hawai'i's lush, tropical vegetation, exotic animals, beautiful beaches, crystal clear water, and fantastical women. This is the Hawai'i tourists know. This is the Hawai’i they visit. However, this Hawai'i is a state of mind, a corporate-produced image existing on the surface. More precisely, it is an aftermath of relentless colonization of the islands' native inhabitants by the United States. These native Hawaiians experience a completely different Hawai'i from the paradise tourists enjoy. No one makes this as clear as Haunani-Kay Trask, a native Hawaiian author. In her book, From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai'i and through her poetry in Light in the Crevice Never Seen, Trask provides an intimate account of the tourist industry's impact on native Hawaiian culture. She presents a negative perspective of the violence, pollution, commercial development, and cultural exploitation produced by the tourist industry. Trask unveils the cruel reality of suffering and struggling through a native Hawaiian discourse. Most of the world is unaware of this.
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
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 .
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.
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.
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.