Introduction; An Ideology Takes Root; Organising Minneapolis Business for the Open Shop; A Declaration of Class Welfare; Controlling Public Affairs; An Industrial Institute for Open-Shop Workers; The CA's Oligarchy and the Minneapolis Renaissance; The Year of Emerging Threats; The Minnesota Coup; The CA's Private Army and the 1917 Streetcar Strike; Saving Minnesota from Radicals; The Establishment of the American Plan; Shaping the Hand of Justice; Guarding an Empire; A Network of Spies; Financing the War on Labour; A Social Agenda for an Open-shop City; The CA and the 1934 Teamsters' Strike; Regrouping for Labour's Second Onslaught; The Birth of Associated Industries; Taming the Red Menace; Creating a New Era; Epilogue.
William Millikan is an independent scholar and freelance writer. Three of his articles have been published in Minnesota History, each of them earning the Solon J Buck Award for best article of the year.
A one-of-a-kind study, providing an insight into the complex nature of labor relations in the United States, a perspective on the power of class and business alliance in American politics, and an exploration into the ways powerful interests have used the state to distort the labor market, the workplace, and the political arena. This book will reshape the way we think and teach about labor and politics in the twentieth-century American city." -- Elizabeth Faue, author of Community of Suffering and Struggle: Women, Men, and the Labor Movement in Minneapolis, 1915-1945This valuable history of Minneapolis' most powerful business organization . . . details how employers secretly fought labor unions. . . . well-researched.--Minneapolis Star Tribune
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