Teamster Rebellion
Edition: 2Rev Ed edition
Publisher: Pathfinder
Published: January 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780873489737
Subjects: Strikes; Minnesota; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Politics / Current Events
Description: "This is the story of the strikes and union organizing drive the men and women of Teamsters Local 574 carried out in Minnesota in 1934, paving the way for the continent-wide rise of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) as a fighting social movement. Through hard-fought strike actions, which were in fact organized battles, they made Minneapolis a union town, defeating not only the trucking bosses but strikebreaking efforts of the big-business Citizens Alliance and city, state, and federal governments. They showed in life what workers and their allies on the farms and in the cities can achieve when they're able to count on the leadership they deserve."--BOOK JACKET.