From May to August of 1934, Minneapolis was rocked by a strike that would forever change the course of US labor history. This was the strike of Teamsters Local 574, a union led by Trotskyists. Many of the best techniques used by organized labor today find their origins in the Minneapolis Strike. However, the strike’s greatest conquest was in laying the foundations for industrial unionism in North America, leading to the formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in the following years.

This four-volume set, recounted by Farrell Dobbs (a principle leader of the 1934 strike and the Socialist Workers Party) continues the story of Local 574 through the end of the 1930s and into WWII:

Teamster Rebellion

Teamster Politics

Teamster Power

Teamster Bureaucracy

258 pages; 345 pages; 375 pages; 440 pages

Farrell Dobbs

Pathfinder Press