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"Gotham Unbound demonstrates the remarkable range of Cosa Nostra's activities and influence and convincingly argues that twentieth-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."--BOOK JACKET.
"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 involvement 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Gotham Unbound: How New York City Was Liberated from the Grip of Organized Crime
August 1, 1999, New York University Press
Hardcover
in English
0814742467 9780814742464
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