Summary
Cesar Chavez helped improve the lives of thousands of farmworkers. He knew firsthand the hardships of working in the fields. As a young person, he and his family spent several years traveling in California as migrant farmworkers, enduring difficult working conditions and receiving low wages. In 1962, Chavez started organizing a farmworker's union. He sought to use nonviolent means, such as marches, boycotts, and hunger strikes, to bring about change. Through his work with the union, which today is known as the United Farm Workers, Chavez was able to negotiate contracts for workers for better wages and working conditions. He also lobbied to increase farmworkers' rights and stop the use of dangerous pesticides. Book jacket.
Contents
Planting the seedsThe wanderer
Rising to the top
La Causa
Picketing, boycotting, and marching
More, bigger, and bloodier
Endings and beginnings
Decline and revival
Losses
Death and rebirth.
Additional Information
| Series | Great life stories. |
| Subjects |
Chavez, Cesar,
-- 1927-1993
-- Juvenile literature.
Chavez, Cesar, -- 1927-1993. United Farm Workers -- History -- Juvenile literature. United Farm Workers. Migrant agricultural laborers -- Labor unions -- United States -- Officials and employees -- Biography -- Juvenile literature. Labor leaders -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature. Labor leaders. Mexican Americans -- Biography. Migrant labor. |
| Publisher | New York :Franklin Watts,2004 |
| Language |
English |
| Description |
127 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (page [119]) and index. |
| ISBN | 0531123197 |
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| Other | Classic View |