Abbreviations
One - Introduction: How David Bear Goliath
Two - Beginnings: Immigrants, Radicals, and the AFL (1900-1959)
Three - New Opportunities, New Initiatives: AWOC, Teamsters, and
the FWA (1959-1962)
Four - A Storm Gathers: Two Responses (1963-1965)
Five - The Great Delano Grape Strike (1965-1966)
Six - Meeting the Counterattack: DiGiorgio, the Teamsters, and
UFWOC (1966)
Seven - Launching a New Union (1966-1967)
Epilogue
Appendix
Notes
References
Index
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.
"[T]his throughly documented account is support by insights and
evidence from Marshall's personal experience, and many will read it
as much for its exciting story of the farm workers' struggle as for
its contribution to the theory of social movements....
Recommended." --Social & Behaviorial Science
"In Why David Sometimes Wins, Ganz demonstrates his own marvelous
story telling skill in his narration of the farm workers' movement
in America... It's about organizing and tactics that work. Ganz
describes them in a unique and interesting manner from his own
vantage point within the farm workers' movement. WHy David
Sometimes Wins is a valuable resource for teachers and students of
community organizing, labor history and the dynamics of
social change." --Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
"A brilliant new book."--The Nation
"Why David Sometimes Wins is an exceptional book that will be of
widespread interest to scholars and activists alike."--American
Journal of Sociology
"This book is a must read for organizers. The analysis of how a
small and poor, but motivated, group of workers triggered a social
movement provides invaluable lessons on what to do and not do as we
struggle with the challenges of the 21st century." --Andy Stern,
President, Service Employees International Union
"How does David defeat Goliath and, equally important, avoid
becoming Goliath? The answer is to develop strategic capacity, an
ongoing interactive process of experimentation, learning, and
adapting. This fascinating book shows how Cesar Chavez and the UFW
created and then lost its strategic capacity-an important lesson on
leadership and organization." --Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Harvard
University
"Through unforgettable and compelling stories, Marshall Ganz
convincingly shows how we need not wait for the right time in
history, but how we can all participate in making history together
and how the resources to do so can be found in one another. Why
David Sometimes Wins will enter the canon of readings on social
change. Get this book. Read it. Use it!" --Gerald Torres, co-author
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"Why Sometimes David Wins by Marshall Ganz provides another example
of a focus on pure organizing, using the 1960s Farmworkers, a union
in which Ganz was a key participant, to develop a general theory of
organizing... this nicely crafted book distills a lifetime of
knowledge about the strategies and contexts of grassroots
organizing to provide new and fundamental insights into how social
movements can be most effective" --Contemporary
Sociology
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