The Union of Their Dreams, Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement
Book - 2009
Baker & Taylor
Documents the rise, fall, and legacy of the United Farm Workers movement as reflected by the story of the iconic community organizer, drawing on extensive original sources to describe the UFW's early activist days and Chavez's ultimate inability to transition to the role of a union leader.
McMillan Palgrave
Documents the rise, fall, and legacy of the United Farm Workers movement as reflected by the story of the iconic community organizer, drawing on extensive original sources to describe the UFW's early activist days and Chavez's ultimate inability to transition to the role of a union leader.
McMillan Palgrave
The rise, fall, and legacy of the inspirational United Farm Workers movement, and the untold story of iconic community organizer Cesar Chavez. A generation of Americans came of age boycotting grapes, swept up in a movement that vanquished California’s most powerful industry and accomplished the unthinkable: dignity and contracts for farm workers. Four decades later, Cesar Chavez’s likeness graces postage stamps, and dozens of schools and streets have been renamed in his honor. But the real story of Chavez’s farm workers’ movement—both its historic triumphs and its tragic disintegration—has remained buried beneath the hagiography. Drawing on a rich trove of original documents, tapes, and interviews, Miriam Pawel chronicles the rise of the UFW during the heady days of civil rights struggles, the antiwar movement, and student activism in the 1960s and ’70s. From the fields, the churches, and the classrooms, hundreds were drawn to la causa by the charismatic Chavez, a brilliant risk-taker who mobilized popular support for a noble cause. But as Miriam Pawel shows, the UFW was ripped apart by the same man who built it, as Chavez proved unable to make the transition from movement icon to union leader. Pawel traces the lives of several key members of the crusade, using their stories to weave together a powerful portrait of a movement and the people who made it. A tour de force of reporting and a spellbinding narrative, The Union of Their Dreams explores an important and untold chapter in the history of labor, civil rights, and immigration in modern America.
Publisher:
New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2009
Edition:
First U.S. edition
ISBN:
9781596914605
1596914602
1596914602
Branch Call Number:
331.8813 CHAVE PAWEL
Characteristics:
xii, 372 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm


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