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    made a huge impact on farm workers with a lot of effort. Her name is Dolores Huerta. She joined and formed organizations to help the farm worker’s welfare and for them to be treated differently. While trying to make a difference‚ she joined Cesar Chavez‚ and together fought for the rights of the farm workers struggling but at the end‚ everything was worth it. They founded organizations‚ led strikes‚ made speeches to motivate people to help them gain benefits for the workers and try to end poverty

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    The Great Depression struck in 1929 and left many migrant workers unemployed in Southern California. Like most people‚ many hispanics were desperate for jobs‚ once theirs were taken. They were offered jobs in the fields and immediately took them. Braceros‚ “manual laborers”‚ were forced to settle for poor working and unsanitary conditions. Many were taken advantage of by their employers. Cesar Chavez‚ an American farm worker‚ labor leader‚ and civil rights activists‚ was born on March 31‚ 1927 in

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    the aches and distress of an auto worker on the rivet line in the 1970 ’s and 80 ’s. This book describes and gives a picture of the reality of working class life and the impact the United Auto Workers (UAW) had on Hamper and his colleagues ’ working conditions. Hamper ’s recollection of his and hundreds of other American workers experiences on the assembly line is simultaneously hilarious and tragic. The UAW not only impacted working conditions for the GM workers of the time but affected working

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    The United Farm Worker Union brought Cesar Chavez a lot of success like getting insurance for workers‚ gaining higher wages‚ and better working conditions. During the 1920s many farm workers suffered mistreatment without a clue 7 years later Cesar Chavez was born to later become the American hero to all immigrants and workers. Back in the 1920s many Mexicans fled north to the U.S to escape the bloodshed in search of new lives. They were granted what they called a Work-Visa which is a Bracero

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    United Farm Workers is a labor union for farm workers which was founded by Cesar Chavez in response to the hardships he experienced as a migrant worker. For more than a century farm workers had been denied a decent life in the fields and communities of California’s agricultural valleys‚ and the creation of unions began to change this landscape. Farm Workers dealt with several difficulties in California. For example‚ farm workers were excluded from important national labor protections that benefitted

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    Mexican-American union leader for farm laborers in California. When he first began working in the fields‚ Chavez was a field laborer and did not have many of the beliefs and values as he did later on in life. He was well known for having strong ethics and for practicing non-violence (Tejada-Flores‚ 2004). Chavez exhibited several different sources of power that is found in successful leaders and was able to convince grape growers to accept collective bargaining contracts for field workers by using effective influence

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    immigrants believe that it’s convenient to come to the United States illegally. In all good terms the Dream Act is trying to send a message that they’re willing to help their children continue with their dreams of starting

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    Speech By Cesar Chavez

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    Cesar Chavez‚ an important figure in farm workers rights‚ and wrote a famous speech about these workers rights. In this speech‚ he states how the physical labor of working on farms was difficult‚ and how farm worker were often exploited by their employers. Chavez also explains how they were paid very low wages and were forced to work in uncomfortable conditions. In the end‚ he tells the people of America that there is no laws for worker rights‚ however joined together they would help fight to create

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    Cesar Chavez

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    Cesar Chavez was an immigrant worker. Cesar Chavez moved to Arizona with his family on 1939. When Cesar Chavez got to Arizona he started working in the fields for ten years. After that he dedicated his life for migrant wrench camps. On 1960 there was a lot of civil unrest and “face offs”. Cesar Chavez started a strike of migrant farm workers in california. Cesar Chavez started a strike because he wanted higher wages and higher working conditions for the farm workers. That was time of the civil

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    Cesar Estrada Chavez was an American farm worker‚ labor leader‚ and civil rights activist. He is the best known Latino civil rights activist. He was born on March 31‚ 1927 in Yuma‚ Arizona to a poor Mexican American family. He grew up in an adobe home with four other siblings. His family owned a grocery store and a ranch‚ but their land got taken away during the Great Depression in 1938. His family’s home was taken away too after his father had agreed to eighty acres of land in exchange for the deed

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