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Labor U.S.A.

Author:	Lester Velie
Publisher:	New York, Harper [1959]
Edition/Format:	Book : English : [1st ed.View all editions and formats
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Additional Physical Format:	Online version: Velie, Lester. Labor U.S.A. New York, Harper [1959] (OCoLC)574561915
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Lester Velie Find more information about:
OCLC Number:	319227
Description:	318 p.
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.?

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