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Not for Bread Alone - A Memoir (Hardcover)
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"Foner often let others take credit, but with his names and
telephone numbers he was the man to call and take a call from. He
was a champion of civil rights and civil liberties and an early and
strong opponent of the Vietnam War when that was rare among labor."
The Nation"For the daily truth behind phrases like
'first-generation American, ' 'labor movement, ' and 'civil rights,
' there is no better life story than that of Moe Foner. Like Emma
Goldman, he insisted on dancing at the revolution, and on every
American's right to joy and justice. In these dark times, his
memoir is a beacon of past and future light." Gloria Steinem"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."
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