Episodes

7 episodes in this season

All In the Family

50 min

Making of the Mob

50 min

Racket Busters

50 min

Birthright of Gangsters

50 min

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The Mob at Work

50 min

Make it Legitimate

50 min

The Old Mob and the New

50 min

Crime Inc.

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198450m7.0

DocumentaryCrime

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The Mob at Work

Season 1 · Episode 5 · Aug 15, 1984

Patterned after the model of the Family in Sicily, mafia activities in America centered in large industrial centers, such as New York and Chicago. Part of the mob's success was its ability to deliver jobs. It was only natural that its influence would be felt in organized labor. The film looks at those ties and practices, and the unsolved case of Jimmy Hoffa. This episode tells the history of the mafia involvement through the unions. Only after violent protests did unions establish themselves in the USA, and from early on the mafia became involved. Strikes by the unions were broken up by thugs hired by the employers. In turn the union hired gangsters to 'fight fire with fire'. Fratianno tells how he started this way, being hired to lead gangs to protect the workers and fight the opposing thugs in pitch battles in the numerous strikes of the 1920's.

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Crime Inc.

TV Series

198450m7.0

DocumentaryCrime

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The Mob at Work

Season 1 · Episode 5 · Aug 15, 1984

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