Gotham Unbound: How New York City Was Liberated from the Grip of Organized Crime by Jacobs, James B.

Gotham Unbound: How New York City Was Liberated from the Grip of Organized Crime (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780814742464)

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Gotham Unbound: How New York City Was Liberated from the Grip of Organized Crime by Jacobs, James B.

Gotham Unbound: How New York City Was Liberated from the Grip of Organized Crime

$89.00
Gotham Unbound: How New York City Was Liberated from the Grip of Organized Crime by Jacobs, James B.

Gotham Unbound: How New York City Was Liberated from the Grip of Organized Crime

$89.00
Format: Hardcover
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Through an investigation of Cosa Nostra's activities, reveals the role of organized crime in the urban power structure

Cosa Nostra. Organized crime. The Mob. Call it what you like, no other crime group has infiltrated labor unions and manipulated legitimate industries like Italian organized crime families. One cannot understand the history and political economy of New York City-or most other major American cities-in the 20th century without focusing on the role of organized crime in the urban power structure.

Gotham Unbound demonstrates the remarkable range of Cosa Nostra's activities and influence and convincingly argues that 20th century organized crime has been no minor annoyance at the periphery of society but a major force in the core economy, acting as a power broker, even as an alternative government in many sectors of the urban economy. James B. Jacobs presents the first comprehensive account of the ways in which the Cosa Nostra infiltrated key sectors of New York City's legitimate economic life and how this came over the years to be accepted as inevitable, in some cases even beneficial. The first half of Gotham Unbound is devoted to the ways organized crime became entrenched in six economic sectors and institutions of the city-the garment district, Fulton Fish Market, freight at JFK airport, construction, the Jacob Javits Convention Center, and the waste-hauling industry. The second half compellingly documents the campaign to purge the mob from unions, industries, and economic sectors, focusing on the unrelenting law enforcement efforts and the central role of Rudolph Giuliani's mayoral administration in devising innovative regulatory strategies to combat the mob.

Author: James B. Jacobs, Coleen Friel, Robert Raddick
ISBN-10: 0814742467
ISBN-13: 9780814742464
Publisher: New York University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/01/1999
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.28w x 1.02d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/1999 pg. 1103
Publishers Weekly 08/16/1999 pg. 72
Library Journal 09/01/1999 pg. 214
Booklist 09/01/1999 pg. 41
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2000 pg. 124
Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/2000 pg. 42 - Outstanding

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