TY - BOOK T1 - Why David Sometimes Wins: Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement Y1 - 2009 A1 - Ganz, M. KW - AFL-CIO KW - agriculture KW - Cesar Chavez KW - civil disobedience KW - civil rights KW - farming KW - La Causa KW - migrant labor KW - United Farm Workers KW - workers' rights AB -

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 strike into a civil rights struggle. They engaged in civil disobedience, mobilized support from churches and students, boycotted growers, and transformed their struggle into La Causa, a farm workers' movement that eventually triumphed over the grape industry's Goliath. Why did they succeed? How can the powerless challenge the powerful successfully? Offering insight from a longtime movement organizer and scholar, Ganz illustrates how they had the ability and resourcefulness to devise good strategy and turn short-term advantages into long-term gains. (from Amazon.com)

PB - Oxford University Press CY - New York SN - 9780195162011 L2 - eng ER -