The Union of Their Dreams : Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement (Paperback)

from singer.phillip

Miriam Pawel's book, The Union of Their Dreams, takes a different-and successful- tack to illustrate the life of Cesar Chavez and the Union movement in agriculture. I think with other biographical endeavors, the author places the "star" at the center of the story and builds around that person. In...

from morningrob

The Union of Their Dreams by Miriam Pawel is an examination of the United Farm Workers (UFW) rise as a economic and political force as an agricultural union in California in the 1960s and 1970. This book takes as its premise that the often glowing accounts of the UFW, which focus mainly on the pe...

from bezoar44

Miriam Pawel presents an incomplete but illuminating history of the United Farm Workers (UFW) from 1965 through 1989. The book focuses tightly on the experiences of eight people in the movement, including boycott organizers, attorneys, a minister, and farmworkers who became team leaders and union...

from KendraRenee

The Union of their Dreams is a history of Cesar Chavez's United Farm Worker (UFW) movement: its development and early successes followed by its quick and unfortunate demise. As a movement it had great appeal, and drew many talented and idealistic folks into its camp. Chavez as a leader inspired t...

from nmulvany

Miriam Pawel deftly captures the wild tapestry of movement politics and the transition to farm worker unionization in The Union of Their Dreams. The story begins in the mid-1960s in the grape fields of the San Joaquin Valley in California. There is no Internet, no email, no cell phones. The Vietn...