HONOLULU (AP) — Workers left without a job when the state's last sugar plantation closes this year will be able to get financial help. Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Co. employees who lose their ...

Plantation workers first began to organize effective unions in the 1930s, which helped build Hawaii's middle class but also made the industry less competitive compared with other countries.

Sep. 4—Hawaii's Plantation Village, an historic outdoor museum in Waipahu honoring the lives of sugar plantation workers, celebrates its 30th anniversary Sept. 10.

The sugar plantations also brought large numbers of workers to Hawaii from China, Japan, Korea, Philippines, and Portugal, shaping the diverse ethnic makeup of the islands. “Personally ...

GEORGE F. LEE / [email protected] Filipino immigrant plantation workers ... work on the state’s thriving sugar plantations, where waves of Chinese, ... farm workers arrived in Hawaii.

Hawaii’s last sugar plantation will wind down by the end of this year, its owner announced today. Alexander & Baldwin Inc. said it will phase out sugarcane farming on Maui at Hawaiian Commercial ...

FILE - This April 27, 2010 file photo shows a worker cutting sugar cane at Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar, Hawaii's last sugar plantation in Puunene, Hawaii.

HONOLULU (AP) - Maui workers left without a job when the state's last sugar plantation closes this year will be able to get financial help. U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, announced Monday that ...

HONOLULU – The owners of Hawaii's last sugar plantation say they're getting out of the sugar-growing business. Miles of sugar cane fields once spread across the islands, providing work to ...

HONOLULU — The owners of Hawaii’s last sugar plantation say they’re getting out of the sugar-growing business. Miles of sugar cane fields once spread across the islands, providing work to ...

HONOLULU — The owners of Hawaii”s last sugar plantation say they”re getting out of the sugar-growing business. Miles of sugar cane fields once spread across the islands, providing… ...