Shadow of the racketeer : scandal in organized labor / David Witwer.

9780252034176 (alk. paper)
0252034171 (alk. paper)
9780252076664 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0252076664 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2009.

English

vii, 322 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

HD6490.C642 U589 2009

364.1/067

"Portions of this book appeared in a different form as "The Case of the Two Percent Assessment and the Question of Union Suceptibility," Trends in Organized Crime 9, no. 4 (2006): 102-126; as "Westbrook Pegler and the Anti-Union Movement," Journal of American History 92, no. 2 (2005): 527-52. (Copyright (c) Organization of American Historians <http: www.oah.org>. Reprinted with permission.); portions of chapter 5 appeared in a different form as "The Scandal of George Scalise: A Case Study in the Rise of Labor Racketeering in the 1930s," Journal of Social History 36, no. 4 (2003): 917-40; and portions of the conclusion appeard in a different form as "The Racketeer Menace and Anti-unionism in the Mid-Twentieth Century U.S.," International Labor and Working-Class History 74 (Fall 2008)"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-318) and index.

Working class in American history.

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