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BL
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623718
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Ganz, Marshall,1943-
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Why David sometimes wins : : leadership, organization, and strategy in the California farm worker movement /\ Marshall Ganz.
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xvii, 344 pages :: illustrations, maps ;; 25 cm
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| ISBN
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9780195162011 (alk. paper)
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: 0195162013 (alk. paper)
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: 9780199757855 (pbk.)
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: 0199757852 (pbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-335) and index.
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| Contents
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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).
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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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United Farm Workers-- History.
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Agricultural laborers-- Labor unions-- California-- History.
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Migrant agricultural laborers-- Labor unions-- California-- History.
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Agricultural laborers-- California-- History.
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| Dewey Classification
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331.88/1309794
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HD6515.A29G36 2009
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