RT Article
T1 The year without Mardi Gras: the New Orleans Police Strike of 1979
JF Crime, law and social change
VO 20
IS 1
SP 53
OP 64
A1 Bovenkerk, Frank 1943-
LA English
YR 1993
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1884336442
AB This is a case study of the proceeding of one police strike in the American Deep South of the 1970s. The author discusses the strike as a conflict between the Teamsters' Union wanting to make an inroad among governmental workers in major cities and a just elected black city administration. The threat that organized crime would take over turned against the local Police Union as Northern so-called international negotiators had been brought to New Orleans. First black mayor "Dutch" Morial was supported by the captains of the Mardi Gras parades to call off Mardi Gras in order to break the strike.
K1 City Administration
K1 International Negotiator
K1 International Relation
K1 Local Police
K1 Major City
DO 10.1007/BF01308448