Why David Sometimes Wins

Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement

By: Marshall Ganz

Business & Economics

why david sometimes wins tells the story of cesar chavez and the united farm workers' groundbreaking victory, drawing important lessons from this dramatic tale. since the 1900s, large-scale agricultural enterprises relied on migrant labor--a cheap, unorganized, and powerless workforce. in 1965, when some 800 filipino grape workers began to strike under the aegis of the afl-cio, the ufw soon...