Mobsters, unions, and feds: The Mafia and the American labor movement

Mobsters, Unions, and Feds: The Mafia and the American Labor Movement

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-320

  Jacobs, James ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW   (United States)

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