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As well, for much of the twentieth century, plantations on Lanai and Molokai famously produced the bulk of the world's sweet pineapple crop. Immigrant workers and families that were brought in to labor in the fields, along with neighboring Hawaiian homesteaders, have endured the... |
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harsh economic realities that accompanied the closing of pineapple operations during the 1980s to 1990s. Lanai, once dependent solely on the fortunes of the Hawaiian Pineapple Company (later Dole Food Company), was acquired by the billionaire David H. Murdock (through Castle & Cooke) in 1985 and has since been marketed as an upscale island getaway. |
