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

Mobsters, Unions, and Feds is the first book to document organized crime's exploitation of organized labor and the massive federal clean-up effort. A renown criminologist who for twenty years has been assessing the government's attack on the Mafia, James B. Jacobs explains how Cosa Nostra families first gained a foothold in the labor movement, then consolidated their power through patronage, fraud, and violence and finally used this power to become part of the political and economic power structure of 20th century urban America.

HD6490.R32.U653 - history - law & legal studies - racketeering - labor unions - Mafia - organized crime