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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.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Encyclopedia of Cesar Chavez
• Subtitle: The Farm Workers' Fight for Rights and Justice
• Author: Roger Bruns
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 344
• EAN: 9781440803802
• ISBN: 1440803803
• ID: 04795599
• Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group Inc
• Weight: 990 g
• Dimensions: 188 × 263 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. April 2013

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