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Labor U.S.A. /

Основен автор: Velie, Lester.
Формат: Книга
Език: English
Публикувано: New York, Harper [1959]
Издание: [1st ed.]
Предмети:
Съдържание:
  • 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.?