Teamster power

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Teamster Power tells the story of how the men and women of Minneapolis Teamsters Local 574 and their class-struggle leadership used the power they had won through three hard-fought strikes in 1934 to extend union power to cities throughout the Upper Midwest, help the unemployed organize and fight for jobs, combat employer frame-ups and assassinations, and launch an 11-state campaign that brought tens of thouands of over-the-road drivers into the union.

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Title Statements

Full title :Teamster power / Farrell Dobbs.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2008.
Edition:Second edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Pathfinder Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2008.

Notes

Includes index.

The Physical Object

Description:375 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations, maps ; : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780873489997, 0873489993
oclc:ocn233939029
LC Classification:HD6515.T32
Dewey Decimal:331.8811

Frame-up attempt -- Leadership showdown -- Class-struggle policy -- The struggle widens -- Braodening the left wing -- Tobin declares war -- The opening round -- Federal Workers section -- New strike wave -- We win another round -- The infighting gets rough -- Tobin backs down -- New horizons -- We reach outward -- Murder in cold blood -- A major breakthrough -- Eleven-state campaign -- Another killing -- First area contract -- Siege of Nebraska -- An unprecedented triumph -- A transformed International -- My change in activity.

Subjects

History International Brotherhood of Teamsters,… Labor unions Labor unions -- History. -- Middle West Labor unions -- Organizing Labor unions -- Organizing -- United St… Middle West Syndicalisation -- Histoire. -- États-U… Syndicats -- Histoire. -- Midwest (État… United States