Why David Sometimes Wins: Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement
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Why David Sometimes Wins tells the story of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers' groundbreaking victory, drawing important lessons from this dramatic tale. Since the 1900s, large-scale agricultural enterprises relied on migrant labor--a cheap, unorganized, and powerless workforce. In 1965, when some 800 Filipino grape workers began to strike under the aegis of the AFL-CIO, the UFW soon joined the action with 2,000 Mexican workers and turned the...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0195162013
ISBN13:9780195162011
Release Date:May 2009
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:368 Pages
Weight:2.05 lbs.
Dimensions:1.4" x 6.1" x 9.3"
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