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"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.

Hospitals --- Labor leaders --- Benevolent institutions --- Infirmaries --- Health facilities --- Labor movement leaders --- Leaders, Labor --- Social reformers --- Employees --- Labor unions --- History. --- Foner, Moe,

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Building on one of sociology's core ideas-that social ties can shape collective outcomes-Democracy's Voices shows that connections across class boundaries can remake public rhetoric and thus the quality of democratic life. Robert M. Fishman takes up a question of enduring significance to people concerned with the quality of democratic public life, focusing on why political rhetoric proves engaging and broadly relevant, or disengaging and narrow. The answer to that question, he argues, is to be found not only in the deeds of prominent politicians and the nature of official institutions but also in the existence and the character of social connections among ordinary citizens. Fishman's book, based on long-term fieldwork and systematic survey research in Spain, identifies the special contribution to democratic quality made by conversations between intellectuals and workers. Fishman focuses on what he calls the "discursive horizons" of local leaders and communities: the actual location of the problems and proposed remedies articulated in political rhetorics. Democracy's Voices shows how the subcultural context of social ties may accentuate or diminish their power to reshape rhetorics. Fishman argues that conversations are able to remake public rhetorics whereas ties that take the form of brokerage lack that ability. The book also offers a general critique of social capital theory and argues that the full ability of social ties to shape collective outcomes can only be observed when one distinguishes in useful ways among types of ties.

Social networks --- Labor leaders --- Intellectuals --- Democracy --- Political participation --- Intelligentsia --- Persons --- Social classes --- Specialists --- Networking, Social --- Networks, Social --- Social networking --- Social support systems --- Support systems, Social --- Interpersonal relations --- Cliques (Sociology) --- Microblogs --- Labor movement leaders --- Leaders, Labor --- Social reformers --- Participation politique --- Démocratie --- Intellectuels --- Dirigeants syndicaux --- Réseaux sociaux

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Dutch literature --- Labor leaders --- Vanistendael, August, --- C3 --- Vanistendael, August (1917-2003) --- biografie --- Wereldverbond van de Arbeid / Confédération Mondiale du Travail / World Confederation of Labour / Weltverband der Arbeit / Confederación Mundial del Trabajo (1920-2006) --- CIDSE / CONIDEP (1967-) --- Caritas Catholica Belgica (1932-heden) --- Vaticanum II --- KADOC (x) --- Kunst en cultuur --- Labor movement leaders --- Leaders, Labor --- Social reformers --- Vanistendael, A. --- Labor leaders - Belgium - Biography --- Vanistendael, August, - 1917-2003

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During the heyday of the U.S. and international labor movements in the 1930's and 1940's, Ferdinand Smith, the Jamaican-born co-founder and second-in-command of the National Maritime Union (NMU), stands out as one of the most-if not the most-powerful black labor leaders in the United States. Smith's active membership in the Communist Party, however, coupled with his bold labor radicalism and shaky immigration status, brought him under continual surveillance by U.S. authorities, especially during the Red Scare in the 1950's. Smith was eventually deported to his homeland of Jamaica, where he

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A collection of speeches and writings by the Mexican American labor activist and head of the United Farm Workers.

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