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Mobsters, Unions, and Feds

The Mafia and the American Labor Movement
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Nowhere in the world has organized crime infiltrated the labor movement as effectively as in the United States. Yet the government, the AFL-CIO, and the civil liberties community all but ignored the situation for most of the twentieth century. Since 1975, however, the FBI, Department of Justice, and the federal judiciary have relentlessly battled against labor racketeering, even in some of the nation's most powerful unions. 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. Since FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's death in 1972, federal law enforcement has aggressively investigated and prosecuted labor racketeers, as well as utilized the civil remedies provided for by the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) statute to impose long-term court-supervised remedial trusteeships on mobbed-up unions. There have been some impressive victories, including substantial progress toward liberating the four most racketeer-ridden national unions from the grip of organized crime, but victory cannot yet be claimed. The only book to investigate how the mob has exploited the American labor movement, Mobsters, Unions, and Feds is the most comprehensive study to date of how labor racketeering evolved and how the government has finally resolved to eradicate it.
Preface Acknowledgments List of Acronyms1 Introduction 2 Organized Crime and Organized Labor 3 President's Commission on Organized Crime 4 Labor Racketeering in New York City 5 Organized Labor's Response to Organized Crime 6 Labor Racketeering and the Rank and File 7 Attacking Labor Racketeering Prior to Civil RICO (1982) 8 Civil RICO Suits and Trusteeships 9 The Liberation of IBT Local 560 10 The New York City District Council of Carpenters 11 The Four International Unions 12 Evaluating Civil RICO 13 Concluding Re?ections Notes Bibliography IndexAbout the Author
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