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Backroom Bargaining: Racketeering and Rebellion in New York City's Labor Unions

Backroom Bargaining: Racketeering and Rebellion in New York City's Labor Unions

LaTour, Jane

Paperback

Series: Working Class in American History

LaborRegional: Middle Atlantic

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ISBN10: 0252089162
ISBN13: 9780252089169
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: Mar 17 2026
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Organized crime figures and their minions honeycombed unions while leadership instituted nepotism, salary padding, and other practices that undermined the well-being of the rank and file. But in New York City, groups of union members and their legal allies waged a years-long struggle against corruption and for better working conditions. Jane LaTour combines rich oral histories with research to take readers into the construction sites, power plants, and Merchant Marine ships where the dramas played out. Dissidents risked their livelihoods for a variety of reasons, from practical concerns like job security and safety to larger ideas like union democracy. LaTour examines the factors that allowed unchecked corruption and kept unions from living up to their potential. But she also tells the eyewitness stories of solidarity and worker spirit that fueled the fight to retake labor power. A rare history of union corruption, Backroom Bargaining shines a light on worker campaigns to uphold fairness and equity in the workplace.

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