Encyclopedia of Cesar Chavez: The Farm Workers' Fight for Rights and Justice - Paperback
by Roger Bruns
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Availability:In StockContributor:Roger BrunsSeries:Movements of the American MosaicPublish date:2024-02-22Pages:392
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9798765120842UPC:9798765120842Book Category:Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Ethnic Studies, Labor & Industrial Relations, Civil RightsBook Topic:AmericanSize:10.00 x 7.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.4903Product ID:SC30920RTK
This book is a unique, single-volume treatment offering original source material on the life, accomplishments, disappointments, and lasting legacy of one of American history's most celebrated social reformers-Cesar Chavez.
Two decades after Cesar Chavez's death, this timely book chronicles the drive for a union of one of American society's most exploited groups-farm workers. Encyclopedia of Cesar Chavez is a valuable one-volume source based on the most recent research and available documentation. Historian Roger Bruns documents how Chavez and his United Farm Workers (UFW), against formidable odds, organized farm laborers into a force that for the first time successfully took on the might of California's agribusiness interests to achieve greater wages and better working conditions.
Set against the backdrop of the 1960s, a time of assassinations, war protests, civil rights battles, and reform efforts for poor and minority citizens, the approximately 100 entries in this encyclopedia provide a glimpse into the events, organizations, men and women, and recurring themes that impacted the life of Cesar Chavez. It also contains a section of primary documentation-useful not only to enhance the understanding of this social and political movement, but also as source material for students.
Two decades after Cesar Chavez's death, this timely book chronicles the drive for a union of one of American society's most exploited groups-farm workers. Encyclopedia of Cesar Chavez is a valuable one-volume source based on the most recent research and available documentation. Historian Roger Bruns documents how Chavez and his United Farm Workers (UFW), against formidable odds, organized farm laborers into a force that for the first time successfully took on the might of California's agribusiness interests to achieve greater wages and better working conditions.
Set against the backdrop of the 1960s, a time of assassinations, war protests, civil rights battles, and reform efforts for poor and minority citizens, the approximately 100 entries in this encyclopedia provide a glimpse into the events, organizations, men and women, and recurring themes that impacted the life of Cesar Chavez. It also contains a section of primary documentation-useful not only to enhance the understanding of this social and political movement, but also as source material for students.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9798765120842UPC:9798765120842Book Category:Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Ethnic Studies, Labor & Industrial Relations, Civil RightsBook Topic:AmericanSize:10.00 x 7.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.4903Product ID:SC30920RTK
Roger Bruns is a historian and former deputy executive director of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission at the National Archives in Washington, DC.
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