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UNINA9910778290503321 |
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Autore |
Jacobs James B |
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Mobsters, unions, and feds [[electronic resource] ] : the Mafia and the American labor movement / / James B. Jacobs |
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New York, : New York University Press, c2006 |
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0-8147-4315-3 |
0-8147-4373-0 |
1-4294-9020-9 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (352 p.) |
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Labor unions - United States - History |
Racketeering - United States - History |
Mafia - United States - History |
Organized crime - United States - History |
Organized crime investigation - United States - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-304) and index. |
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; Introduction -- Organized crime and organized labor -- President's Commission on Organized Crime -- Labor racketeering in New York City -- Organized labor's response to organized crime -- Labor racketeering and the rank and file -- Attacking labor racketeering prior to Civil RICO (1982) -- Civil RICO suits and trusteeships -- The liberation of IBT Local 560 -- The New York City District Council of Carpenters -- The four international unions -- Evaluating Civil RICO -- ; Concluding reflections. |
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Nowhere in the world has organized crime infiltrated the labor movement as effectively as in the United States. Yet the government, the AFL-CIO, and the civil liberties community all but ignored the situation for most of the twentieth century. Since 1975, however, the FBI, Department of Justice, and the federal judiciary have relentlessly battled against labor racketeering, even in some of the nation's most powerful unions. Mobsters, Unions, and Feds is the first book to document organized crime's exploitation of organized labor and the massive federal cleanup effort. A renowned criminologist |
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UNINA9910799920103321 |
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Autore |
Manzanas Calvo Ana Ma (Ana Maria) |
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Cities, borders, and spaces in intercultural American literature and film / / Ana Ma. Manzanas and Jesus Benito |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
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1-136-82488-X |
1-283-15142-1 |
9786613151421 |
1-136-82489-8 |
0-203-83080-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (177 p.) |
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Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ; ; 14 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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American literature - Minority authors - History and criticism |
American literature - 21st century - History and criticism |
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
Cities and towns in literature |
Space in literature |
Place (Philosophy) in literature |
Borderlands in literature |
Cities and towns in motion pictures |
Space in motion pictures |
Place (Philosophy) in motion pictures |
Borderlands in motion pictures |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction : lingering on Times Square -- Chiastic spaces: ports of entry, ports of exit -- The migrational city in Chuck Palahniuk's "Slumming" : a story by lady baglady, and Helena Viramontes's "The Cariboo Cafe" -- Unbound cities, concentric circles : Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of orange -- Borderlands : middle spaces, hybrid bodies -- The rhetoric of spatial cutting : borders, scars, open wounds -- Terminal thinking : border narratives, airport narratives, and the logic of detention -- Postscript conclusion : from The Great Wall to |
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Thus book examines the spatial morphologies represented in a wide range of contemporary ethnic American literary and cinematic works. Drawing from Henri Lefebvre's theorization of space as a living organism, Edward Soja's writings on the postmetropolis, Marc AugeĢ's notion of the non-place, Manuel Castells' space of flows, and Michel de Certeau's theories of walking as a practice, the volume extends previous theorizations by examining how spatial uses, appropriations, strictures, ruptures, and reconfigurations function in literary texts and films that represent inhabitants of racial-ethnic b |
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