Based on many years of interviews-with farm workers, organizers, and the opponents and friends of the UFW-the book tells a story of collective action and empowerment rich in evocative detail and stirring human interest. Trampling Out the Vintage is the authoritative account of the rise and fall of the United Farm Workers and its most famous and controversial leader, Cesar Chavez. The UFW was once a transformative political force of a kind now largely lost in contemporary America. It goes back more than four decades to the heyday of the United Farm Workers, an organization that at its height won many labor victories, secured collective bargaining rights for California farm workers and became a major voice for the Latino community, which was previously excluded from national politics. The slogan “Yes we can”-in the form “¡Sí Se Puede!”-doesn’t originate with Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign.
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