Interview with Darren Gamayo

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closingofsugar_19.pdf (9.44 MB)

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1997

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Nishimoto, Warren

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A displaced sugar plantation worker remembers growing up on the plantation, national guard service, and sugar company work as a knapsack sprayer, cane planter, and finger-lift operator. He describes the layoffs, bumping, and union meetings preceding the plantation closing. He also talks about the final harvest and effects of the closing on him and his family, job seeking, and current job as a hotel security guard.
knapsack sprayer, sugarcane planter, finger-lift operator; Filipino-Chinese?; male
Interview conducted in English.

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Family Life, Hamakua, Plantation Life, Sugar Cane, Working Conditions

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http://hdl.handle.net/10125/30253

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1 hr, 25 min
26 pages

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Honokaa, Hawaii

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DU629 .H36 H36 1997

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The Closing of Sugar Plantations: Interviews with Families of Hamakua and Ka‘u, Hawai‘i
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