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Mobsters, Unions, and Feds: The Mafia and the American Labor Movement Kindle Edition
“This worthy successor to Gotham Unbound . . . is an exhaustive . . . survey of the grip La Cosa Nostra has exerted on the country's most powerful unions.” –Publishers Weekly
Nowhere in the world has organized crime infiltrated the labor movement as effectively as in the United States. Yet the government, the AFL-CIO, and the civil liberties community all but ignored the situation for most of the twentieth century. Since 1975, however, the FBI, Department of Justice, and the federal judiciary have relentlessly battled against labor racketeering, even in some of the nation's most powerful unions.
Mobsters, Unions, and Feds is the first book to document organized crime's exploitation of organized labor and the massive federal cleanup effort. A renowned criminologist who for twenty years has been assessing the government's attack on the Mafia, James B. Jacobs explains how Cosa Nostra families first gained a foothold in the labor movement, then consolidated their power through patronage, fraud, and violence and finally used this power to become part of the political and economic power structure of twentieth century urban America.
Since FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's death in 1972, federal law enforcement has aggressively investigated and prosecuted labor racketeers, as well as utilized the civil remedies provided for by the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) statute to impose long-term court-supervised remedial trusteeships on mobbed-up unions. There have been some impressive victories, including substantial progress toward liberating the four most racketeer-ridden national unions from the grip of organized crime, but victory cannot yet be claimed.
“A must read book for anyone interested in the problem of union corruption and what to do about it.” —Industrial and Labor Relations Review
- ISBN-13978-0814742945
- PublisherNYU Press
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 2006
- LanguageEnglish
- File size3181 KB
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Jacobs offers a history of the federal government's efforts to curb labor racketeering. The heart of his text focuses on the results achieved by employing Civil RICO suits to weed out organized crime from unions long mired in corruption. The Justice Department has mounted twenty such efforts since 1982, and Jacobs's book is the first to provide a comprehensive assessment of this controversial tactic. He tackles this ambitious project with a combination of detailed research, clear writing, and judicious consideration, all of which have been a hallmark of his previous texts on corruption and organized crime. The result is a must read book for anyone interested in the problem of union corruption and what to do about it
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- ASIN : B002WVGEFU
- Publisher : NYU Press (January 1, 2006)
- Publication date : January 1, 2006
- Language : English
- File size : 3181 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
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- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 519 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,037,126 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #196 in Labor & Industrial Relations (Kindle Store)
- #266 in Labor Law
- #337 in Labor & Industrial Economic Relations (Kindle Store)
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Great job Professor
Ronald Fino
Received this book today by mailman into a good shape.
Containing very interesting stories, like to know on a clearly way what really had been happened about the mob influence into some sections of the American Labor Movement and their workforce, and other forms of conspiracy between politicians and Mafiosi, extorsion and bribery of big companies by other dubiously persons, like Frank Sinatra! And don't forget the Kennedy clan, headed by Joseph Kennedy sr. from New England, who had the hand in it by himself by paying Mafia bosses in Chicago for winning elections for is sons!
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