The 1934 strikes that built the industrial union movement in Minneapolis and helped pave the way for the CIO, recounted by a central leader of that battle. This is the first in a four-volume series on the class-struggle leadership of the strikes and organizing drives that transformed the Teamsters union in much of the Midwest into a fighting social movement and pointed the road toward independent labor political action. What People Are Saying “The focus is...on the lessons of the strike for labor and political organizing.” Book News“It was Dobbs and others like him who helped build the Teamsters.” Minneapolis Star “An insider’s look at the struggles of Teamster Local 574.” Reforma Read less “A welcome and recommended addition to academic and community library American Labor History collections.” Midwest Book Review
