Living Conditions In Hawaii In The 1800's

For the immigrant workers,plantation life in Hawaii in the 1800’s was extremely hard.Living conditions were terrible,disgusting and unsanitary,too small for the amount of people fit in the barracks;Working conditions were hard;painful and the salary was way too low,and the race discrimination and gender difference were unfair,while the worst jobs were given to the Asians,and the best jobs were given to the whites and Portuguese.

Living conditions were disgusting,unsanitary,too small,and terrible.Most were miserable under plantation life.They lived in crowded,unsanitary work camps.Housing conditions, jobs and wages differed according to race.The management and skills jobs were held by whites.The lunas and camp policemen were mostly Portuguese
and Hawaiian.In the passage it states that “Most were miserable under plantation life.”In the article it states that 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 with cut and blistered hands.

Working conditions, and living conditions were horrible.In the passage it states that ‘’Housing conditions, jobs and wages differed according to race.The management and skills jobs were held by whites.The lunas and camp policemen were mostly Portuguese and Hawaiian.The worst jobs were given to the Asians.” In the second source,the article states that their schedule was long and hard.The sugar workers were treated unfairly.
In the article it states”When it was time to cut the ripened cane,they labored amid clouds of dust that made breathing difficult.”In the passage it also states “Twice a month, workers were paid.They had to bring their small brass oraluminum identification card, which was called a bango and bore their stamped identification number. The pay, too,differed by race. For example, in 1910,Japanese cane cutters earned 99 cents a day, while their Filipino counterparts earned 69 cents a day. In the second source,it states that “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 whipped them with black snake whips. The life of the plantation worker was not an easy one.”In the passage,there is a rule chart.Some of these rules are that “ Laborers are expected to be industrious and docile and obedient to their overseers. Any cause of complaint against the overseers, of injustice of ill treatment, shall be heard by the manager through the interpreter, but in no case shall any
laborer be permitted to raise his hand or any weapon in an aggressive manner of cabal with his associates or incite them to acts of insubordination. The working hours shall be ten each day, or more, if by mutual consent, in which case they shall have extra pay, but when work is not pressing, laborers will be allowed to stop on Saturdays at 4 o’clock.These are only a very few of the rules they were expected to follow.

The Asians got the worst jobs.I know this because in the passage it states that “The work was tedious beyond measure,and painful.Weed clearing crews worked all day bent over.Workers who stripped the cane of it’s sharp edged leaves went home each afternoon with cut and blistered hands.They also had to deal with wasps that infested the fields.”In the article it also 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 at 6 am to 4:30 p.m. shifts that their parents did,laboring as blacksmiths' helpers, camp cleaners, carriers, store clerks, field hands and mill laborers.”In the passage it states that “They tried to recreate the village life they left,making small shrines in their homes and crude, homemade hot tubs called furo where men and women soaked after a day in the fields.”In the second source,it states that “The Chinese were taken to the plantations where they lived in grass houses or unpainted wooden buildings with dirt floors.Sometimes as many as forty men were put into one room. They slept on wooden boards about two feet wide and about three feet from the floor.” The passage also states that “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.” For the immigrant workers,plantation life in Hawaii in the 1800’s was extremely hard.
Living conditions were terrible,disgusting and unsanitary,too small for the amount of people fit in the barracks;Working conditions were hard;painful and the salary was way too low,and the race discrimination and gender difference were unfair,while the worst jobs were given to the Asians,and the best jobs were given to the whites and Portuguese.I believe this because it’s all in the facts,and it was not fair to them.Plantation life was not good for anyone.