Strike!
Subtitle: the farm workers' fight for their rights
By: Larry Dane Brimner
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Honesdale, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781590789971
Subjects: Strikes and lockouts; Agricultural laborers; Labor unions; Juvenile literature; History
Description: In 1965, as the grapes in California's Coachella Valley were ready to harvest, migrant Filipino American workers--who picked and readied the crop for shipping--negotiated a wage of 1.40 per hour, the same wage growers had agreed to pay guest workers from Mexico. But when the Filipino grape pickers moved north to Delano, in the Central Valley, and again asked for 1.40 an hour, the growers refused. The ensuing conflict set off one of the longest and most successful strikes in American history. In "Strike!," award-winning author Larry Dane Brimner dramatically captures that story. Brimner, a master researcher, fills this riveting account of the strike and its aftermath with the words of migrant workers, union organizers, and grape growers, as well as archival images that capture that first strike in 1965 and the ones that subsequently followed. Includes an author's note, bibliography, and source notes.

Photographs and English text with Spanish sidebars chronicle the history of the farm workers' strike led by César Chávez and Larry Itliong, leading to the founding of the United Farm Workers of America labor union.
Notes: Horn Book, September 2014

Kirkus Starred, May 2014

School Library Journal starred, June 2014

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Accelerated Reader MG 8.5 6 6 169517