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Author Fitch, Robert, 1938-

Title Solidarity for sale : how corruption destroyed the labor movement and undermined America's promise / Robert Fitch.

Publication Info. New York : Public Affairs, [2006]
©2006

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 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  331.8 FI    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xvi, 412 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [339]-398) and index.
Contents Part One: What's wrong with corruption? -- Curse on the house of labor -- Hidden cost of corrupt unions -- Part Two: Origins -- Revolt against solidarity -- Fall of Sam Parks -- Dynamite organizing -- Solidarity for sale, Chicage, 1905 -- Part Three: Corrupt unions-A contemporary survey -- Totally mobbed up: Daily life in the laborers union -- DC 37: A progressive kleptocracy -- UNITE's garment gulag -- Ron Carey: Martyr or mountebank? -- Part Four: The failure of reform -- Teamsters for a democratic union: how bottom-up reform hit bottom -- Eyes off the prize: reform's rebuff in DC 37 -- Andy Stern's dead souls -- Conclusion: Solidarity for real.
Subject Labor unions -- Corrupt practices -- United States.
Organized crime -- United States.
Labor movement -- United States -- History.
Labor leaders -- United States -- History.
ISBN 189162072X
Standard No. 9781891620720
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