Eisenhower and Landrum-Griffin : A Study in Labor-Management Politics /

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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Lee, R. Alton
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, [1990]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. > (Dwight David), > 1890-1969.
United States. > Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959.
Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (United States)
Politics and government.
Labor unions > Law and legislation.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Judicial Branch.
LAW > Legal Services.
LAW > Civil Procedure.
Labor unions > Law and legislation > United States.
United States.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 1953-1961.
United States > Politics and government > 1953-1961.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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 Landrum-Griffin Act. In this book, R. Alton Lee, author of an earlier study of the Taft-Hartley law.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (216 pages).
ISBN:9780813159249

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