From the Jaws of Victory The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement

Name: From the Jaws of Victory The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement
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ISBN: 9780520283855

ISBN-10: 0520283856

ISBN-13: 9780520283855

Edition: 2012

Authors: Matthew Garcia

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From the Jaws of Victory:The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement is the most comprehensive history ever written on the meteoric rise and precipitous decline of the United Farm Workers, the most successful farm labor union in United States history. Based on little-known sources and one-of-a-kind oral histories with many veterans of the farm worker movement, this book revises much of what we know about the UFW. Matt Garcia’s gripping account of the expansion of the union’s grape boycott reveals how the boycott, which UFW leader Cesar Chavez initially resisted, became the defining feature of the movement and drove the growers to sign labor contracts in 1970. Garcia…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 6/14/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English