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Murder in the Garment District: The Grip of Organized Crime and the Decline of Labor in the United States

Murder in the Garment District: The Grip of Organized Crime and the Decline of Labor in the United States

Witwer, David
Rios, Catherine

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ISBN10: 1620974630
ISBN13: 9781620974636
Publisher: New Press
Published: May 5 2020
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
The thrilling and true account of racketeering and union corruption in mid-century New York, when unions and the mob were locked in a power struggle that reverberates to this day

In 1949, in New York City's crowded Garment District, a union organizer named William Lurye was stabbed to death by a mob assassin. Through the lens of this murder case, prize-winning authors David Witwer and Catherine Rios explore American labor history at its critical turning point, drawing on FBI case files and the private papers of investigative journalists who first broke the story. A narrative that originates in the garment industry of mid-century New York, which produced over 80 percent of the nation's dresses at the time, Murder in the Garment District quickly moves to a national stage, where congressional anti-corruption hearings gripped the nation and forever tainted the reputation of American unions.

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