Hawaii Plantation Workers

Imagine you are poor, had no job and you had the chance to immigrant to work in the Hawaiian plantation in the 1800s. Some of the immigrant workers in the plantation would say no to work in Hawaii plantation in the 1800s. They would likely say it was horrible, not a relaxing, easy, fun workplace, rather it is like a prison for the people working. The living condition that the workers were treated was awful. Also, the working conditions are dangerous and tiring. Additionally, ethnic segregation in the plantation is racist.
The first reason why the workers would say they would not work in a Hawaiian plantation because the living conditions there are horrifying. The work camp workers were given to live in are often crowded, usually, two couples
The plantation is tiring because first off the work was given to the workers like weed clearing would take all day. Workers would work in weed-clearing all day, having to bend over all day, getting blisters and dealing with wasps in the area. As said in source one, “The work was tedious beyond measure and painful. Weed-clearing crews worked all day bent over. Workers who stripped the cane of its sharp-edged leaves went home each afternoon to cut and blistered hands. They also had to deal with wasps that infested the fields.” The second reason why working on a plantation is tiring is because women and children would also work. The woman worked in the fields, would also work in house cleaning and in the laundry. Children would also work from 6 am to 4:30 pm and also attend a school which is very tiring. In Source 1 it states “Women worked in the fields, but also did house-cleaning and laundry. Their children were employed in shifts that dictated when they would attend school, and they often worked the same 6 am to 4:30 pm, like their parents, would do.” The third reason why the work condition is tiring is that the workers would wake up early (5:00 am) and work for 12 hours, 6 days a week for little wage. The fourth reason why the work condition is tiring is that the workers could never rest while working. When workers want to rest or slow down a bit at work, they’ll be whipped by their boss or also called Luna with black snake whips. Ouch! This was from Source 2 that said, “Every morning at five their bosses, called lunas, marched them to the fields. There they cut the sugar cane and hauled it on their backs to ox-drawn carts, which took the cane to the mill to be made into sugar. The men could rest only at times permitted by the lunas and if they slowed down in their work or showed signs of not working, the lunas frequently