Over a hundred years ago in Hawaii history, immigrant workers were not treated well. Throughout the mid 1800s, Hawaii built and worked in sugar plantations to produce the product sugar. In order to keep up the production, Hawaii had to ask for and receive immigrant workers and employees. However, these immigrant workers were, in a way, abused from their new plantation lives. Some folks may imply that plantation life was easy because immigrant workers were offered housing, clothing, and food however, this wasn’t the whole story. Plantation life in Hawaii in the 1800s wasn't easy but rather grating for the immigrant workers. During this era, plantation life housing conditions were filled with dread, working conditions were undeniably spartan, and lastly racial segregation impacted the overall treatment of the immigrant workers.
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Yet it is nevertheless not “home sweet home”. This is precisely how the immigrant workers felt as they would enter their, not so pleasant, camp rooms. According to the “Plantation Life” article by Mike Gordon, Immigrant workers lived in, quote, “crowded, unsanitary work camps”. The folks’ homes were located on parched fields and had very little shade from the scorching sun. To add injury to insult, Workers would have to sleep on wooden boards as stated in “Hawaii’s Sugar Plantation Reading Folder”. Rooms were crowded and were not very spacious. For instance, couples would have to share a 10 feet room with a kitchen stove as stated in the “Plantation Life” article by Mike Gordon. It was downright miserable and forlorn for the immigrant workers to live in these conditions with their camp being the only place they ever had gotten to unwind from a long day’s
Yet it is nevertheless not “home sweet home”. This is precisely how the immigrant workers felt as they would enter their, not so pleasant, camp rooms. According to the “Plantation Life” article by Mike Gordon, Immigrant workers lived in, quote, “crowded, unsanitary work camps”. The folks’ homes were located on parched fields and had very little shade from the scorching sun. To add injury to insult, Workers would have to sleep on wooden boards as stated in “Hawaii’s Sugar Plantation Reading Folder”. Rooms were crowded and were not very spacious. For instance, couples would have to share a 10 feet room with a kitchen stove as stated in the “Plantation Life” article by Mike Gordon. It was downright miserable and forlorn for the immigrant workers to live in these conditions with their camp being the only place they ever had gotten to unwind from a long day’s