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Revolutionary teamsters : the Minneapolis Truckers' Strikes of 1934 / by Bryan D. Palmer.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Historical materialism book series ; volume 53.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013Description: 1 online resource (x, 308 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004254862
  • 9004254862
  • 1299830234
  • 9781299830233
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Revolutionary teamstersDDC classification:
  • 331.892/813883240977657909043 23
LOC classification:
  • HD5325.M7952 1934 .P35 2013eb
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Contents:
Acknowledgements; Illustrations; Chapter One Revolutionary Trotskyism and Teamsters in the United States: the Early Depression-Years; Chapter Two The Mass Strike; Chapter Three Uneven and Combined Development: Class-Relations in Minneapolis; Chapter Four Trotskyists Among the Teamsters: Propagandistic Old Moles; Chapter Five January Thaw; February Cold Snap: The Coal-Yards on Strike; Chapter Six Unemployed-Agitation and Strike-Preparation; Chapter Seven The Women's Auxiliary; Chapter Eight Rebel-Outpost: 1900 Chicago Avenue.
Chapter Nine The Tribune Alley Plot and the Battle of Deputies RunChapter Ten May 1934: Settlement Secured; Victory Postponed; Chapter Eleven Interlude; Chapter Twelve Toward the July Days; Chapter Thirteen A Strike Declared; a Plot Exposed; Chapter Fourteen Bloody Friday; Chapter Fifteen Labour's Martyr: Henry B. Ness; Chapter Sixteen Martial Law and the Red-Scare; Chapter Seventeen Governor Olson: The 'Merits' of a Defective Progressive Pragmatism; Chapter Eighteen Standing Fast: Satire and Solidarity; Chapter Nineteen Mediation's Meanderings; Chapter Twenty Sudden and Unexpected Victory.
Chapter Twenty-One After 1934: the Revenge of Uneven and Combined DevelopmentChapter Twenty-Two Conclusion: the Meaning of Minneapolis; Appendix Trotskyism in the United States, 1928-33; References; Index.
Summary: Can workers win? Bryan D. Palmer presents a detailed account of the Minneapolis teamsters' strikes of 1934 to suggest that working-class victories are possible, however bad the circumstances.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-299) and index.

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Can workers win? Bryan D. Palmer presents a detailed account of the Minneapolis teamsters' strikes of 1934 to suggest that working-class victories are possible, however bad the circumstances.

Acknowledgements; Illustrations; Chapter One Revolutionary Trotskyism and Teamsters in the United States: the Early Depression-Years; Chapter Two The Mass Strike; Chapter Three Uneven and Combined Development: Class-Relations in Minneapolis; Chapter Four Trotskyists Among the Teamsters: Propagandistic Old Moles; Chapter Five January Thaw; February Cold Snap: The Coal-Yards on Strike; Chapter Six Unemployed-Agitation and Strike-Preparation; Chapter Seven The Women's Auxiliary; Chapter Eight Rebel-Outpost: 1900 Chicago Avenue.

Chapter Nine The Tribune Alley Plot and the Battle of Deputies RunChapter Ten May 1934: Settlement Secured; Victory Postponed; Chapter Eleven Interlude; Chapter Twelve Toward the July Days; Chapter Thirteen A Strike Declared; a Plot Exposed; Chapter Fourteen Bloody Friday; Chapter Fifteen Labour's Martyr: Henry B. Ness; Chapter Sixteen Martial Law and the Red-Scare; Chapter Seventeen Governor Olson: The 'Merits' of a Defective Progressive Pragmatism; Chapter Eighteen Standing Fast: Satire and Solidarity; Chapter Nineteen Mediation's Meanderings; Chapter Twenty Sudden and Unexpected Victory.

Chapter Twenty-One After 1934: the Revenge of Uneven and Combined DevelopmentChapter Twenty-Two Conclusion: the Meaning of Minneapolis; Appendix Trotskyism in the United States, 1928-33; References; Index.

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