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Author Foner, Moe, 1915-

Title Not for bread alone : a memoir / by Moe Foner ; with Dan North ; foreword by Ossie Davis
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [2002]
©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 142 pages : portraits
Contents Saturdays at the Palace : growing up in Brooklyn -- 2. Sing While you fight : finding the labor movement -- 3. Grab them by the collar : telling the story of forgotten workers -- 4. Like a beautiful child : The Uospital Union comes of age -- 5. I am somebody :the Charleston strike -- 6. Bread and roses : working people deserve the best -- 7. The busted Stradivarius : Fighting to preserve 1199's ideals -- 8. Senior advisor : passing It on -- Epilogue
Summary "I operated under the theory that a good union doesn't have to be dull."-Moe Foner"Don't waste any time mourning-organize."-Joe HillMoe Foner, who died in January 2002, was a leading player in 1199/SEIU, New York's Health and Human Service Union, and a key strategist in the union's fight for recognition and higher wages for thousands of low-paid hospital workers. Foner also was the founder of Bread and Roses, 1199's cultural program created to add dimension and artistic outlets to workers' lives. Foner produced a musical about hospital workers; invited Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger to perform for workers and their children; presented stars such as Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, and Alan Alda; and installed the only permanent art gallery at a union headquarters. One of Foner's last projects was a poster series called "Women of Hope," which celebrates African American, Native American, Asian American, and Latina women including Maya Angelou, Maxine Hong Kingston, Septima P. Clark, and the Delaney sisters Sarah and Elizabeth. Today his legacy is the largest and most important cultural program of any union.Not for Bread Alone traces Foner's development from an apolitical youth whose main concerns were basketball and music to a visionary whose pragmatism paved the way for legislation guaranteeing hospital workers the right to unionize. Foner writes eloquently about his early life in Brooklyn as the son of a seltzer delivery man and about many of the critical developments in the organization of hospital workers. He provides an insider's perspective on major strikes and the struggle for statewide collective bargaining; the leadership styles of Leon Davis, Doris Turner, and Dennis Rivera; and the union's connection to key events such as the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-136) and index
Subject Foner, Moe, 1915-
SUBJECT Foner, Moe, 1915-
Foner, Moe, 1915- fast
Subject Labor leaders -- New York (State) -- Biography
Hospitals -- Employees -- Labor unions -- New York (State) -- History
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
Hospitals -- Employees -- Labor unions
Labor leaders
SUBJECT New York
Subject New York (State)
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author North, Dan, 1935-
ISBN 9781501724121
1501724126