Taking Care of Business
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ISBN: 1-58367-003-3 (pbk) 224 pages Taking Care of Business: Samuel Gompers, George Meany, Lane Kirkland, and the Tragedy of American Labor by Paul Buhle The first comprehensive history of American labor leadership in the twentieth century, this is a tale of tremendous hope and appalling treachery, stunning accomplishment and dramatic defeat. Paul Buhle tells the story of the American labor bureaucracy through vignettes of three powerful labor leaders of the twentieth century: Samuel Gompers, George Meany, and Lane Kirkland, successive presidents of the American Federation of Labor and its descendent, the AFL-CIO. Other important labor leaders, from John L. Lewis to Walter Reuther, receive in-depth treatment.