The slogan 'Yes we can!'-in the form 'Si Se Puede!'-predates Obama's 2008 presidential campaign by more than four decades. It was the coinage of the United Farm Workers' cofounder Cesar Chavez: a man who led his organization to many victories and secured collective bargaining rights for California farm workers. A charismatic leader who continues to inspire much controversy, Chavez built the United Farm Workers into a major force and a voice for the Mexican-American community, previously excluded from national politics.
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A radically honest, uncompromising and often painful deconstruction of the legend of Cesar Chavez,Trampling Out the Vintage is one of the long-awaited books of our time. Having spent almost a decade as an agricultural worker in California's Pajaro Valley (where he still lives), Bardacke's account evokes the spirit of Steinbeck, resurrecting the true heroes of La Causa - the rank and file fieldworkers - and reminding us that the grapes of wrath still remain to be harvested for social justice. --Mike Davis
There's so much marvelous stuff in Frank Bardacke's book that's simply not been done before. At the book's core are the men and women who pick the crops in California's fields and orchards. Bardacke gives those people, mostly seen only in distant fields, a huge presence, one crackling with political vitality: those surges the UFW had no idea were coming; those moments when a strike spread like wildfire across the fields. Here are the farm workers, their skill and endurance, the world they built among themselves, the ways they shaped the history of the UFW. It is their story-refreshingly, sympathetically, and beautifully told- that makes this book stand apart and will make it stand forever. --Alex Cockburn
There's so much marvelous stuff in Frank Bardacke's book that's simply not been done before. At the book's core are the men and women who pick the crops in California's fields and orchards. Bardacke gives those people, mostly seen only in distant fields, a huge presence, one crackling with political vitality: those surges the UFW had no idea were coming; those moments when a strike spread like wildfire across the fields. Here are the farm workers, their skill and endurance, the world they built among themselves, the ways they shaped the history of the UFW. It is their story-refreshingly, sympathetically, and beautifully told- that makes this book stand apart and will make it stand forever. --Alex Cockburn
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Frank Bardacke is a teacher and labor organizer in Watsonville, CA who worked the fields in the Salinas Valley for seven years. He is also the author of Good Liberals and Great Blue Herons and a translator of Shadows of Tender Fury: The Letters and Communiques of Subcomandante Marcos and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation.
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riveting: the real inside story told in microscopically-fine detail. Not merely the history and worker-centric politically-astute analysis of the rise and fall of UFW, this will also be of deep and vital concern for anyone interested generally in political and social movements past, present and future, "the Sixties", community organizing methodology, California politics, agricultural sociology, trade unions, etc, etc - as well as serving as a meditation on the warning-sign dangers of charismatic leadership in any of the above. I can't say that I read it all in one sitting - the book is 800 pages long - but it was un-putdownable and I read it cover to cover in one long weekend. Not to be missed.
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A monumental work of history
27 Oct 2011
By Paul M. Buhle
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This is a landmark volume: Bardacke has delivered the most important history of Mexican-American unionism as well as the most detailed history of workplace life in any major US business since David Montgomery's works of the 1960s-80s. Trampling Out the Vintage is also the poignant tale of an icon imploded, Cesar Chavez pulling down the UFW with him, or being pulled down by the impossibility of organizing agricultural labor. Bardacke, a 1960s Berkeley campus leader who took to the fields and personally introduced the long-handled hoe in Watsonville, interviewed hundreds of UFW activists and catches the nuances that only oral history can reach. It's an incredible book.
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Best Book Ever Written About the UFW and Cesar Chavez
21 Nov 2011
By Michael D. Yates
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I have been studying and writing about the United Farm Workers since the 1970s. This is, without a doubt, the best book ever written on the UFW, Cesar Chavez, farm workers, and farm labor. Three things set it apart from other books: 1. It pays attention to farm workers themselves, the nature of their work and their history of organization against the growers. 2. Bardacke examines the life of Chavez in greater and better detail than any one else. We see that Chavez's strategies and tactics as president of the UFW flowed naturally from his past. 3. The UFW is situated in the history of the times--the War in Vietnam, the left-liberal split, the politics of the AFL-CIO, California politics. The writing is stellar, and the depth of original research is amazing. A tour de force for certain.
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Cesar Chavez: Separating the Man From the Myth
3 Dec 2011
By Mark R. Day
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For four decades, many of us who worked as volunteers for United Farm Workers union in the 1960s wondered if someone would ever come forward to separate Cesar Chavez the man from Cesar Chavez the myth. Well, that somebody is Frank Bardacke, whose book combines the skills of a top investigative journalist with a refreshing writing style and the careful documentation of a trained historian. Bardacke shows how Chavez labored painstakingly to build his movement, then eventually dismantled it, brick by brick, until he stood alone, abandoned by his staff, his volunteers, and the farm workers he sought to serve. Trampling Out the Vintage belongs in every library and school. It should be required reading for anyone interested in social movements, labor history, and ethnic studies. Bardacke's treatment of Chavez and the UFW is both an inspiring story and a cautionary tale. I hope it sparks endless debates and discussions.
Mark R.Day
(Day is the author of Forty Acres: Cesar Chavez and the Farm Workers, Praeger: 1971)
Mark R.Day
(Day is the author of Forty Acres: Cesar Chavez and the Farm Workers, Praeger: 1971)
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