The Union of Their Dreams Power Hope and Struggle in Cesar Chavez’s Farm Worker Movement 1st Edition by Miriam Pawel 9781596914605 1596914602
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ISBN 10: 1596914602
ISBN 13: 9781596914605
Author: Miriam Pawel
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.
Table of contents:
Part I: The Grape Strike
1. Huelga
2. Showdown at DiGiorgio
3. Out of the Fields, Into the Streets
4. The Fast
5. Please Don’t Eat Grapes
6. Making History
Part II: Growing Pains
7. Strike in the Salad Bowl of the World
8. The Union Is Not La Paz
9. Back to the Boycott
Part III: War, Again
10. Holy Week
11. Fill the Jails
12. The New Union
13. Dark Days
14. The Best Labor Law in the Country
Part IV: The New World
15. Elections in the Fields
16. Transitions
17. The Crusades
18. The Cultural Revolution
Part V: A Movement or a Union
19. The Purges
20. In the Trenches
21. Visions Collide
Part VI: Up from the Fields
22. Quiet Before the Storm
23. The Dream Strike
24. Victory in Salinas
25. A Different Union
26. You’re With Us or Against Us
27. Malignant Forces
28. A Dream Deferred
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