How Did Cesar Chavez Fight For Workers Rights Impact The World

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You probably go to school and learn about things while you probably don't work in fields. Well Mother Jones and Cesar Chavez fought for child labor and farm workers rights. With that they got justice. Without justice there would be so many wrongs in the world like robberies, violence, abuse and so on. That's why justice is important in our world. The biography “ About Cesar” by The Cesar Chavez Foundation is about what Cesar Chavez fought for and his legacy. The biography “Mother Jones: Fierce Fighter for Workers’ Rights” by Judith Pinkerton Josephson is about Mother Jones’ fight for child labor laws. Both of these people fought for workers rights. However, I think Cesar Chavez made a more lasting impact on the world. Cesar Chavez fought for farm workers rights in the field. Cesar’s motto “ Si Se Puede” motivated people to keep fighting after his death.He fought for farm workers because he didn't like they way farm owners were treating them. He did that by boycotting grapes, protesting, strikes, hosting marches and fasts. The author wrote,” The coming years would bring much more adversity: Strikes and boycotts, marches and fasts, victories and defeats.” (CCF,24)The outcomes of all these boycotts were “- rest periods, toilets in the fields, clean drinking water, hand washing facilities, banning discrimination in employment and …show more content…

She fought for child labor rights because she saw how bad the children were being treated. An example of this is,” There bodies were bone-thin, with hollow chests. Their shoulders were rounded from long hours spent hunched over the workbenches.” (Josephson, 5) She tried to help the children by marching all the way to Sagamore Hill to talk to the president. The author wrote, “ On July 29, she took three young boys to Sagamore Hill, where the president was staying.” (Josephson,9) The result of this was nothing. Mother Jones didn’t complete her goal of helping the children have