Teamster Rank and File
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Samuel R. Friedman has worked as a sociologist and AIDS and public researcher since 1968. In the 1970s and recently, he has worked with Teamster and other activists to organize rank-and-file movements. He organized a union where he worked in the later 1980s. He is a socialist and a poet. He currently is employed as Research Professor at a major medical school.
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Foreword to the 1982 Edition by Doug Allan and Peter J. Camarata, Introduction to the First Edition, Introduction to the New Edition: TDU, the Rank and File, and Socialism From Below, 1. Bureaucratic Unionism, 2. Teamsters Local 208, 3. Drivers and Driving, 4. Rank-and-File Rebellion in the Late Fifties, 5. Rank and Filers in Office, 6. Changes in the Trucking Industry and the Teamsters Union, 7. Apolitical Activism Ambushed: The 1970s Wildcat, 8. Trusteeship, 9. Militants Enchained, 10. Teamsters Rank-and-File Organize Nationwide, 11. Conclusion: The Many Meanings of Local 208, Appendix 1: Dates in Local 208 History, Appendix 2: What Might Socialism Look Like?, Appendix 3: Creating a Socialism That Meets Needs