Immigrant Workers And Living Conditions In Hawaii In The 1800s

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Why is plantation life so hard and why is it not worth much?Immigrant workers and planters were working and living on the sugar plantations.It was in Hawaii, during the mid 1800s and it was to fill the need of workers in the fields.That was started because there aren’t enough people in Hawaii due to diseases and plantation businesses were booming. They offered a place to live, food, and money, just live a normal job. Plantation life in Hawaii in the 1800s was awful.The working conditions were frustrating and stressful. Genders and different cultures were not treated equally and nicely.The living conditions were terrible and in one small little hut made of grass you would have to share it with like forty people.It was very unsanitary and they had to give up living with family and in their own house for three years and little pay.(stated from the article “Plantation Life”) …show more content…

They lived in crowded, unsanitary work camps and shopped at plantation stores. They are bound to labor for three years at wages of only $18 a month plus housing, water, fuel, and medical care.A plantation official placed a bango, a metal tag with a number stamped on it,around the neck of each man, like a lei every time someone came to work in the

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