Labor U.S.A. / by Lester Velie.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harper,
[1959]
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| Edition: | First edition |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. A visit to the House of Labor, divided, and a close-up view of the head of the House, George Meany: Six days the shook the union world
- Plumber with his finger in the dike
- 2. Two views of America's (and the world's) most powerful union -the Teamsters: from the top down: Jim Hoffa and co., from the bottom up: the dues payers: Jimmy Hoffa: dead end kid with a plus
- The Teamsters from the bottom up
- 3. Why they behave like union leaders: some portraits light and gray: Why they hate Walter Reuther
- The man who lives with a ghost
- David Dubinsky: he bosses 400,000 women
- 4. Looking backward -and forward: how America's unions got that middle-class way, as seen through the lives of the unions' two fathers, Samuel Gompers and John L. Lewis: Sam Gompers: father with labor pains
- John L. Lewis: labor's rogue elephant
- 5. The trouble the unions have seen: The corrupters
- Journey to the underworld
- The union that God forgot
- Cruel sweetheart
- Black record
- 6. What the unions do, and things you didn't suspect they do: How to get a $100,000,000 raise
- Labor U.S.A. vs. the Kremlin
- Will the unions elect our next president?
- 7. How can we return stolen unions to their members? And turn labor leaders into quasi-public servants? And what of the future?: How to steal a union -and how to get it back
- What shall we do with the labor leader?
- When machines don't need men -what of labor U.S.A.?