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Beschreibung
Why David Sometimes Wins tells the story of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers' groundbreaking victory, drawing important lessons from this dramatic tale. Offering insight from a longtime movement organizer and scholar, Ganz illustrates how they had the ability and resourcefulness to devise good strategy and turn short-term advantages into long-term gains.
Why David Sometimes Wins tells the story of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers' groundbreaking victory, drawing important lessons from this dramatic tale. Offering insight from a longtime movement organizer and scholar, Ganz illustrates how they had the ability and resourcefulness to devise good strategy and turn short-term advantages into long-term gains.
Über den Autor
Marshall Ganz joined Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers in 1965, where he worked for 16 years, and has since continued work with grassroots organizations to design voter-mobilization strategies for local, state, and national electoral campaigns, most recently with Barack Obama. Ganz is currently Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Abbreviations

  • 1.: Introduction: How David Bear Goliath

  • 2.: Beginnings: Immigrants, Radicals, and the AFL (1900-1959)

  • 3.: New Opportunities, New Initiatives: AWOC, Teamsters, and the FWA (1959-1962)

  • 4.: A Storm Gathers: Two Responses (1963-1965)

  • 5.: The Great Delano Grape Strike (1965-1966)

  • 6.: Meeting the Counterattack: DiGiorgio, the Teamsters, and UFWOC (1966)

  • 7.: Launching a New Union (1966-1967)

  • Epilogue

  • Appendix

  • Notes

  • References

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Genre: Importe, Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780199757855
ISBN-10: 0199757852
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Ganz, Marshall
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Marshall Ganz
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.2010
Gewicht: 0,553 kg
Artikel-ID: 120666692

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