The Racketeer's Progress
The Racketeer's Progress

Author: Andrew Wender Cohen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-05-03

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780521834667

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"The Racketeer's Progress explores the contested and contingent origins of the modern American economy by examining the violent resistance to its development. Historians often portray Chicago as an unregulated industrial metropolis, composed of factories and immigrant labourers. In fact, the city was home to thousands of craftsmen - carpenters, teamsters, barbers, butchers, etc. - who formed unions and associations that governed commerce through pickets, assaults, and bombings. Working together, these groups forcefully challenged the power of national corporations and physically managed the development of mass culture in the city."--BOOK JACKET.

Rebels, Reformers, and Racketeers
Rebels, Reformers, and Racketeers

Author: Herman W. Benson

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13:

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"This volume fillls a neglected chapter in contemporary history. The Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959, which provided federal support for civil liberties and fair elections in unions, triggered a wave of insurgency as reformers throughout the labort movement fought to gain control of their unions by strengthening union democracy and eradicating corruption. This is their story." -- Back cover.

Shadow of the Racketeer
Shadow of the Racketeer

Author: David Scott Witwer

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0252076664

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A detailed account of labor corruption in the 1930s and the zealous journalist who railed against it

Committee Prints
Committee Prints

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary

Publisher:

Published: 1964

Total Pages: 1596

ISBN-13:

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