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In Transit: The Transport Workers Union in New York City, 1933-1966. (book reviews)

In Transit: The Transport Workers Union in New York City, 1933-1966

Building on my own previous work, "Collective Bargaining in the New York City Transit System: A Case Study in the Politics of Unicipal Unionism, 1937-1950" (M.S. thesis, Cornell University, 1974), Joshua Freeman's book offers a detailed institutional history of the Transport Workers Union (TWU). Headed for many years by a fiery, chairsmatic Irishman, Mike Quill, the TWU has been a perennial New York City headline since its birth in the 1930s.

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