Native Hawaiian Labor in a Global Economy: The View from Nineteenth-Century New England

Rosenthal will discuss his current research project, Beyond Hawaiʻi: Native Labor in the Pacific World, which grows out of his dissertation. This work presents a history of Native Hawaiian migrant labor in the nineteenth-century global economy. Rosenthal will discuss the manuscript and archival sources that he is currently using at the Houghton Library, the Baker Business Library, and the Massachusetts Historical Society to explore the complex interrelationships between New England capital and Pacific Islander labor in an era of capitalist expansion and globalization.