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
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