1. What were the ethnic groups that were involved in migratory farm work in California at the time that the UFWA began its organizing campaigns?
2. Who initiated the first strike?
3. What was the initial attitude of the growers?
4. Who was Cesar Chavez? In what ways does he fit Weber's idea of a charismatic leader?
5. Who was Dolores Huerta?
6/ . What led the UFWA to initiate a grape boycott?
7. What was the attitude of newly elected governor Ronald Reagan toward the UFWA and their strike?
8. What do you see as the keys to the success of the UFWA?
1. The Wagner National Labor Relations Act of 1935 provided that employees shall have the right to form unions of their own choosing and to bargain collectively with their employers. Why do you suppose farmworkers were specifically excluded from that law? Do you think farmworkers should have been included from the first?
2. What were the factors that ultimately made the grape boycott succeed in pressuring the grape growers to recognize the union and negotiate a contract?
3. The narrator suggests that "the farmworkers movement became heart and soul of the Chicano movement." Assuming this is true, why do you think it happened?
4. What do you see as the role of religious symbolism, art, music, theater, and the like in a movement like this?