Research Catalog

Title

Teamster power / Farrell Dobbs.

Author

Dobbs, Farrell.

Publication

New York : Pathfinder Press, 2008.

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Details

Description

375 p., [24] p. of plates : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

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.

Subject

• International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America. Local 544
• International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America. Local 574
• Labor unions > Middle West > History
• Labor unions > History. > United States

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 9780873489997 (pbk.)
• 0873489993

OCLC

233939029

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library