Why David sometimes wins : leadership, organization, and strategy in the California farm worker movement / Marshall Ganz.
2009
HD6515.A29 G36 2009 (Mapit)
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Title
Why David sometimes wins : leadership, organization, and strategy in the California farm worker movement / Marshall Ganz.
Author
Ganz, Marshall, 1943-
ISBN
9780195162011 (alk. paper)
0195162013 (alk. paper)
0195162013 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2009.
Language
English
Description
xvii, 344 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number
HD6515.A29 G36 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
331.88/1309794
Summary
Uses the victory of the National Farm Workers Association over large-scale agricultural enterprises in 1966 as a lens through which to explore the reasons why the powerless sometimes win against the powerful.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
How David beat Goliath
Beginnings : immigrants, radicals, and the AFL (1900-1959)
New opportunities, new initiatives : (AWOC, Teamsters, and the FWA (1959-1962)
A storm gathers : two responses (1963-1965)
The great Delano grape strike (1965-1966)
Meeting the counterattack : Di Giorgio, the Teamsters, and UFWOC (1966)
Launching a new union (1966-1967).
Beginnings : immigrants, radicals, and the AFL (1900-1959)
New opportunities, new initiatives : (AWOC, Teamsters, and the FWA (1959-1962)
A storm gathers : two responses (1963-1965)
The great Delano grape strike (1965-1966)
Meeting the counterattack : Di Giorgio, the Teamsters, and UFWOC (1966)
Launching a new union (1966-1967).