Publisher's Synopsis
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. "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 "A welcome and recommended addition to academic and community library American Labor History collections."-Midwest Book Review
