The Closing of Sugar Plantations: Interviews with Families of Hamakua and Kaʻu, Hawaiʻi

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These are life history interviews conducted with displaced Hamakua Sugar Company and Ka‘u Agribusiness Company workers and their families. The workers or their spouses were surveyed earlier for a Center on the Family research project on job loss. August 1997, 598 pages, 2 volumes, photographs.

Browse full transcripts on ScholarSpace, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

Interviewee Stanley Mendes sits on porch of his plantation house, Honoka‘a, Hawai‘i, 1996. (COH photo.)

Interviewee Stanley Mendes sits on porch of his plantation house, Honoka‘a, Hawai‘i, 1996. (COH photo.)