In 1961, two years after Labor Relations Associates dissolved in shame, Shefferman published a book entitled The Man in the Middle, a 292-page justification of his four decades in anti-union employee relations work. In the book Shefferman whines a great deal about his treatment before the McClellan Committee and defends his work ad nauseam. His key defense lay in his claim that union avoidance constituted "a tiny percentage" of his labor relations work. By way of illustration, he cites a laundry list of other personnel services he provided, as reported by one client to the McClellan Committee. The list included the administration of opinion surveys, supervisor training, incentive pay procedures, wage surveys, employee complaints, personnel records, application procedures, job evaluations, and legal services. The other services were rendered, to be sure. But the truth is, if union busting was part of the work, then the entire package was tainted. Everything else had to be performed in concert with the overall goal of keeping top management in complete control. Every other piece of a company's employee relations work had a part in that drama. To borrow a line from Shefferman's own book: "So we find that even the hidden thread is basic to the fabric of labor-management relations."