Mobsters, Unions, and Feds: The Mafia and the American Labor Movement

by James B. Jacobs

Book Overview

The first book to document organized crime's exploitation of organized labor and the massive federal cleanup effort

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814742734
• ISBN13: 9780814742730
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"