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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-299) and index
