1st Edition
The Business Of Crime A Documentary Study Of Organized Crime In The American Economy
By Alan A Block
Copyright 1991
294 Pages
by
Routledge
294 Pages
by
Routledge
294 Pages
by
Routledge
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Members of organized crime syndicates have gained control of key businesses and trade unions through their strategic positions as arbiters of labor-management conflicts and as dispensers of illegal credit. They are managing important sectors of the contemporary marketplace, engaging in activities far more significant than the vice enterprises usually associated with criminal activity. Difficult to... Read more
Introduction: The Business of Organized Crime -- The Process -- An Investigation of the Loan-Shark Racket -- Labor Racketeering Activities of Jack McCarthy and National Consultants Associated, Ltd -- Industries Under Siege -- The Return of the Sweatshop -- An Investigation Concerning Racketeer Activities in Connection with the Air Freight Industry in the New York Metropolitan Area -- Waterfront Corruption -- Criminal Infiltration of the Toxic and Solid Waste Disposal Industries in New York State -- Declaration of Joseph Hauser Before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, April 27, 1983 -- Fighting Back -- Oversight Inquiry of the Department of Labor’s Investigation of the Teamsters Central States Pension Fund -- Government’s Memorandum of Law in Support of Its Motion for Preliminary Relief
Biography
Alan A. Block is professor of administration of justice at The Pennsylvania State University.
