Governing and disciplining Filipino migrant workers’ health at Hawaiian sugar plantations

Maria Cadiz Dyball and Jim Rooney

CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ACCOUNTING, 2019, vol. 65, issue C

Abstract: This paper examines an attempt by the Hawaiian sugar plantations to govern and discipline deficient bodies of Filipino workers and their families. Mobilising Foucault’s (1977; 1991) notions of governmentality and discipline, the paper analyses how the diet and reproductive habits of migrant Filipino workers became legitimate, feasible and necessary problems for plantation management to address and medical experts to cure. Filipino workers were a confined population who were a target of constant observation from the time when they left their country for work in the Hawaiian sugar plantations to the time when, having served their work contracts, they returned home. They were vulnerable to a number of control techniques. This paper exposes how accounting in coalition with statistical and medical knowledge, was implicated in such bid to govern and discipline a privately enclosed subject of its gaze.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cpa.2019.01.004

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