Author: Farrell Dobbs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book 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.
Teamster Rebellion
Author: Farrell Dobbs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book 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.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book 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.
Revolutionary Teamsters
Author: Bryan D. Palmer
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004254862
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Minneapolis in the early 1930s was anything but a union stronghold. An employers' association known as the Citizens' Alliance kept labour organisations in check, at the same time as it cultivated opposition to radicalism in all forms. This all changed in 1934. The year saw three strikes, violent picket-line confrontations, and tens of thousands of workers protesting in the streets. Bryan D. Palmer tells the riveting story of how a handful of revolutionary Trotskyists, working in the largely non-union trucking sector, led the drive to organise the unorganised, to build one large industrial union. What emerges is a compelling narrative of class struggle, a reminder of what can be accomplished, even in the worst of circumstances, with a principled and far-seeing leadership.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004254862
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Minneapolis in the early 1930s was anything but a union stronghold. An employers' association known as the Citizens' Alliance kept labour organisations in check, at the same time as it cultivated opposition to radicalism in all forms. This all changed in 1934. The year saw three strikes, violent picket-line confrontations, and tens of thousands of workers protesting in the streets. Bryan D. Palmer tells the riveting story of how a handful of revolutionary Trotskyists, working in the largely non-union trucking sector, led the drive to organise the unorganised, to build one large industrial union. What emerges is a compelling narrative of class struggle, a reminder of what can be accomplished, even in the worst of circumstances, with a principled and far-seeing leadership.
Native Providence
Author: Patricia E. Rubertone
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496223993
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title A city of modest size, Providence, Rhode Island, had the third-largest Native American population in the United States by the first decade of the twentieth century. Native Providence tells the stories of the city's Native residents at this historical moment and in the decades before and after, a time when European Americans claimed that Northeast Natives had mostly vanished. Denied their rightful place in modernity, men, women, and children from Narragansett, Nipmuc, Pequot, Wampanoag, and other ancestral communities traveled diverse and complicated routes to make their homes in this city. They found each other, carved out livelihoods, and created neighborhoods that became their urban homelands--new places of meaningful attachments. Accounts of individual lives and family histories emerge from historical and anthropological research in archives, government offices, historical societies, libraries, and museums and from community memories, geography, and landscape. Patricia E. Rubertone chronicles the survivance of the Native people who stayed, left, and returned, or lived in Providence briefly, who faced involuntary displacement by urban renewal, and who made their presence known in this city and in the wider Indigenous and settler-colonial worlds. Their everyday experiences reenvision Providence's past and illuminate documentary and spatial tactics of inequality that erased Native people from most nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496223993
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title A city of modest size, Providence, Rhode Island, had the third-largest Native American population in the United States by the first decade of the twentieth century. Native Providence tells the stories of the city's Native residents at this historical moment and in the decades before and after, a time when European Americans claimed that Northeast Natives had mostly vanished. Denied their rightful place in modernity, men, women, and children from Narragansett, Nipmuc, Pequot, Wampanoag, and other ancestral communities traveled diverse and complicated routes to make their homes in this city. They found each other, carved out livelihoods, and created neighborhoods that became their urban homelands--new places of meaningful attachments. Accounts of individual lives and family histories emerge from historical and anthropological research in archives, government offices, historical societies, libraries, and museums and from community memories, geography, and landscape. Patricia E. Rubertone chronicles the survivance of the Native people who stayed, left, and returned, or lived in Providence briefly, who faced involuntary displacement by urban renewal, and who made their presence known in this city and in the wider Indigenous and settler-colonial worlds. Their everyday experiences reenvision Providence's past and illuminate documentary and spatial tactics of inequality that erased Native people from most nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history.
A Castle in the Clouds
Author: Barry H. Rodrigue
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780991542710
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780991542710
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Class Struggle Unionism
Author: Joe Burns
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1642596817
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
For those who want to build a fighting labor movement, there are many questions to answer. How to relate to the union establishment which often does not want to fight? Whether to work in the rank and file of unions or staff jobs? How much to prioritize broader class demands versus shop floor struggle? How to relate to foundation-funded worker centers and alternative union efforts? And most critically, how can we revive militancy and union power in the face of corporate power and a legal system set up against us? Class struggle unionism is the belief that our union struggle exists within a larger struggle between an exploiting billionaire class and the working class which actually produces the goods and services in society. Class struggle unionism looks at the employment transaction as inherently exploitative. While workers create all wealth in society, the outcome of the wage employment transaction is to separate workers from that wealth and create the billionaire class. From that simple proposition flows a powerful and radical form of unionism. Historically, class struggle unionists placed their workplace fights squarely within this larger fight between workers and the owning class. Viewing unionism in this way produces a particular type of unionism which both fights for broader class issues but is also rooted in workplace-based militancy. Drawing on years of labor activism and study of labor tradition Joe Burns outlines the key set of ideas common to class struggle unionism and shows how these ideas can create a more militant, democtractic and fighting labor movement.
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1642596817
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
For those who want to build a fighting labor movement, there are many questions to answer. How to relate to the union establishment which often does not want to fight? Whether to work in the rank and file of unions or staff jobs? How much to prioritize broader class demands versus shop floor struggle? How to relate to foundation-funded worker centers and alternative union efforts? And most critically, how can we revive militancy and union power in the face of corporate power and a legal system set up against us? Class struggle unionism is the belief that our union struggle exists within a larger struggle between an exploiting billionaire class and the working class which actually produces the goods and services in society. Class struggle unionism looks at the employment transaction as inherently exploitative. While workers create all wealth in society, the outcome of the wage employment transaction is to separate workers from that wealth and create the billionaire class. From that simple proposition flows a powerful and radical form of unionism. Historically, class struggle unionists placed their workplace fights squarely within this larger fight between workers and the owning class. Viewing unionism in this way produces a particular type of unionism which both fights for broader class issues but is also rooted in workplace-based militancy. Drawing on years of labor activism and study of labor tradition Joe Burns outlines the key set of ideas common to class struggle unionism and shows how these ideas can create a more militant, democtractic and fighting labor movement.
Laws of the Territory of Nevada
Teamster Bureaucracy
Author: Farrell Dobbs
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781604881011
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
"The principal lesson for labor militants to derive from the Teamster experience is not that, under an adverse relationship of forces, the workers can be overcome, but that, with proper leadership, they can overcome." Farrell DobbsFarrell Dobbs tells the story of the political campaign led by the most class-conscious wing of the unions to organize working-class opposition to the US rulers' imperialist aims in entering World War II. He explains how Washington-aided by the top bureaucracy of the Teamsters, AFL, and then CIO-deployed its political police, the FBI, to try to smash union power and silence antiwar militants.He recounts the 1941 sedition trial staged by the federal government to railroad to prison eighteen leaders of Minneapolis Local 544-CIO and the Socialist Workers Party, as well as the international campaign to win their release. This new edition of the labor classic by Dobbs contains more than 130 photos and illustrations of the unfolding events.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781604881011
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
"The principal lesson for labor militants to derive from the Teamster experience is not that, under an adverse relationship of forces, the workers can be overcome, but that, with proper leadership, they can overcome." Farrell DobbsFarrell Dobbs tells the story of the political campaign led by the most class-conscious wing of the unions to organize working-class opposition to the US rulers' imperialist aims in entering World War II. He explains how Washington-aided by the top bureaucracy of the Teamsters, AFL, and then CIO-deployed its political police, the FBI, to try to smash union power and silence antiwar militants.He recounts the 1941 sedition trial staged by the federal government to railroad to prison eighteen leaders of Minneapolis Local 544-CIO and the Socialist Workers Party, as well as the international campaign to win their release. This new edition of the labor classic by Dobbs contains more than 130 photos and illustrations of the unfolding events.
The Western Christian Advocate
Teamster Power
Author: Farrell Dobbs
Publisher: Teamster
ISBN: 9780873489997
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Teamster
ISBN: 9780873489997
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Teamster Politics
Author: Farrell Dobbs
Publisher: Teamster
ISBN: 9781604880458
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Teamster Politics tells the story of how Minneapolis Teamster Local 544, guided by a class struggle leadership in the 1930s organized the unemployed and truck owner-operators into fighting union auxiliaries, deployed a Union Defense Guard to stop a membership drive by fascist Silver Shirts, combated FBI and Justice Department frame-ups, campaigned for workers to break politically from the bosses and organize a labor party based on the unions, and mobilized labor opposition to U.S. imperialism's entry into World War II.Teamster Politics is the third book in author Farrell Dobbs's four-volume series on the Teamsters Union and the labor movement in the 1930s. A worker still in his twenties in the Minneapolis coal yards in 1934, Dobbs became a leader of the 1934 Minneapolis Teamster strikes and central organizer of an 11-state campaign that brought tens of thousands of over-the-road truckers into the union in the following years.New second edition features includes new special 20-page photo section, many from the Northwest Organizer, the newspaper of Local 544.
Publisher: Teamster
ISBN: 9781604880458
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Teamster Politics tells the story of how Minneapolis Teamster Local 544, guided by a class struggle leadership in the 1930s organized the unemployed and truck owner-operators into fighting union auxiliaries, deployed a Union Defense Guard to stop a membership drive by fascist Silver Shirts, combated FBI and Justice Department frame-ups, campaigned for workers to break politically from the bosses and organize a labor party based on the unions, and mobilized labor opposition to U.S. imperialism's entry into World War II.Teamster Politics is the third book in author Farrell Dobbs's four-volume series on the Teamsters Union and the labor movement in the 1930s. A worker still in his twenties in the Minneapolis coal yards in 1934, Dobbs became a leader of the 1934 Minneapolis Teamster strikes and central organizer of an 11-state campaign that brought tens of thousands of over-the-road truckers into the union in the following years.New second edition features includes new special 20-page photo section, many from the Northwest Organizer, the newspaper of Local 544.