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Corruption and Reform in the Teamsters Union (Working Class in American History) - Softcover

Witwer, David

 
9780252075131: Corruption and Reform in the Teamsters Union (Working Class in American History)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0252075137 ISBN 13: 9780252075131
Verlag: University of Illinois Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Almost since its creation, recurring problems with corruption bedeviled the Teamsters Union. David Witwer provides the first in-depth historical study of the forces that contributed to the Teamsters' troubled past and the mechanisms the union employed--from top-down directives to grassroots measures--to combat corruption.

Witwer draws on the perspectives of rank-and-file members, union leaders, and the criminal element to explain the processes that allowed organized crime to seize power inside the union. His account includes the infamous links between the Mafia and union head Jimmy Hoffa, but he also tells the little-known story of the McClellan Committee investigation that first brought those links to light. Witwer also examines how anti-labor forces used the Teamsters' unsavory reputation to influence popular and legislative opinion in a broad attack on workers' rights.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

David Witwer is an associate professor of history at Lycoming College in Pennsylvania.

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Verlag
University of Illinois Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0252075137
ISBN 13 
9780252075131
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
312
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk

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4831 GR
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