Shadow of the Racketeer: Scandal in Organized Labor - Brossura

Witwer, David

 
9780252076664: Shadow of the Racketeer: Scandal in Organized Labor
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ISBN 10: 0252076664 ISBN 13: 9780252076664
Casa editrice: Univ of Illinois Pr, 2009

Sinossi

Shadow of the Racketeer: Scandal in Organized Labor tells the story of organized crime's move into labor racketeering in the 1930s, focusing on a union corruption scandal involving payments from the largest Hollywood movie studios to the Chicago mob to ensure a pliant labor supply for their industry. The book also details the work of crusading journalist Westbrook Pegler, whose scorching investigative work dramatically exposed the mob connections of top labor leaders George Scalise and William Bioff and garnered Pegler the first Pulitzer Prize for reporting.

From a behind-the-scenes perspective, David Witwer describes how Pegler and his publisher, the politically powerful Roy W. Howard, shaped the news coverage of this scandal in ways that obscured the corrupt ties between employers and the mob while emphasizing the perceived menace of union leaders empowered by New Deal legislation that had legitimized organized labor. Pegler, Howard, and the rest of the mainstream press pointedly ignored evidence of the active role that business leaders took in the corruption, which badly tarnished the newly reborn labor movement. Pegler's continuing campaign against labor corruption framed the issue in ways that set the stage for postwar political defeats, culminating with the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act, which greatly limited the power of labor unions in the United States.

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Informazioni sugli autori

David Witwer is an associate professor of history at Penn State Harrisburg and the author of Corruption and Reform in the Teamsters Union.


David Witwer is an associate professor of history at Penn State Harrisburg and the author of Corruption and Reform in the Teamsters Union.

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Editore
Univ of Illinois Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2009
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0252076664
ISBN 13 
9780252076664
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
322
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
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ISBN 10:  0252034171 ISBN 13:  9780252034176
Casa editrice: Univ of Illinois Pr, 2009
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