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SUMMARY:For the Love of Labor. The Life of Pauline NewmanBook talk by Cathryn J. Prince
DESCRIPTION:In this book talk\, author Cathryn J. Prince follows Pauline Newman’s life from a youth split between Lithuania and New York City sweatshops to her work as an advisor to New Deal–era labor secretary Frances Perkins. \nFrom her start as one of the youngest activists in US history\, Pauline Newman helped shape the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU) into a dominant force in industrial America. Cathryn J. Prince tells the story of a self-educated Jewish immigrant who dedicated herself to a legion of causes and lifelong battles against sexism and classism. \n\nREGISTER HERE\nNewman’s long hours at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory informed her entrée into labor activism. In the following years\, she tirelessly advocated for workers\, ran for New York Secretary of State as a socialist\, and became the first woman to serve as the ILGWU general organizer. Her interest in the health of workers led to service on the Joint Board of Sanitary Control and a decades-long term as education director of the ILGWU health center. Membership in Eleanor Roosevelt’s circle opened doors to government positions and advisory roles that continued into the postwar era. Prince also weaves in the details of Newman’s fifty-year relationship with a woman\, her struggles with her sexual identity\, and her final years. \nEngaging and panoramic\, For the Love of Labor is the first major biography of an important figure in labor and women’s history. \n\n\nCathryn J. Prince is the author of several non-fiction book including Queen of the Mountaineers: The Trailblazing Life of Fanny Bullock Workman\, Death in the Baltic: The WWII Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff\, for which she was awarded the Military Writers Society of America 2013 Founders Award and selected as a Military Book Club selection\, and Shot from the Sky: American POWs in Switzerland. An adjunct professor of journalism at Fordham University in New York\, Prince worked as a correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor in Switzerland and in New York\, where she reported on the United Nations. She is a frequent contributor to the Christian Science Monitor\, The Times of Israel\, The Forward\, and Hadassah Magazine. \n\n\n\nYou can order the book here: \n\n\nYOU CAN ORDER THE BOOK HERE\nPlease donate generously to make programs like this possible. Thank you. \n\nThe Fritz Ascher Society is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization. Your donation is fully tax deductible. \nDONATE HERE
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