Eisenhower and Landrum-Griffin: A Study in Labor-Management Politics

By R. Alton Lee

During the 1950s two Senate investigations, both highly publicized through the new medium of television, revealed the spread of racketeers and corruption among labor unions. Taking advantage of these sensational revelations, business interests, who for years had chafed against the federal government's pro-labor policies, mounted a campaign to curb labor's power. With the support of the business-oriented administration of Dwight Eisenhower, they pushed through Congress a new ""reform"" law-the La

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081311683X
• ISBN13: 9780813116839
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.8"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher