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Why David Sometimes Wins: Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement

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Why David From time to time Wins tells the story of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers’ groundbreaking victory, drawing necessary lessons from this dramatic tale. For the reason that 1900s, large-scale agricultural enterprises relied on migrant labor–an affordable, unorganized, and powerless body of workers. In 1965, when some 800 Filipino grape workers started 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 reinforce from churches and students, boycotted growers, and transformed their struggle into La Causa, a farm workers’ movement that at last 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 that they had the ability and resourcefulness to plan good strategy and turn short-term advantages into long-term gains. Authoritative in scholarship and magisterial in scope, this book constitutes a seminal contribution to learning from the movement’s struggles, set-backs, and successes.

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