Mobsters, Unions, and Feds - 9780814742945

Mobsters, Unions, and FedsThe Mafia and the American Labor Movement\nAuthor(s): James B. Jacobs\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9780814742945, 978-0814742945\nSynopsis\nThe first book to document organized crime's exploitation of organized labor and the massive federal cleanup effort\n 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.\n 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 ha.