Eisenhower and Landrum-Griffin: A Study in Labor-Management Politics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813116839)

During the 1950s two Senate investigations, both highly publicized through the new medium of television, revealed the spread of racketeers and corruption among labor unions. Taking advantage of these sensational revelations, business interests, who for years had chafed against the federal government's pro-labor policies, mounted a campaign to curb labor's power. With the support of the business-oriented administration of Dwight Eisenhower, they pushed through Congress a new ""reform"" law-the La

Author: R. Alton Lee
ISBN-10: 081311683X
ISBN-13: 9780813116839
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 01/11/1990
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 8.82h x 5.70w x 0.78d