Excerpt from The Teamsters Union: A Study of Its Economic Impact The opportunity to prepare a study of the Teamsters Union more formally known as International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America (ibt) offered a welcome challenge. While the literature of labor rela tions and trade unionism has been growing rapidly during the past two decades, and although many of the international and national unions have been subjected to thorough examination, there has as yet been no general analysis of the teamsters. A few studies in monograph form and many magazine articles and newspaper accounts devoted to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters have appeared. But the former have had a scope limited to a specific geographical region or one phase of union activity and most of the latter have been concerned with matters of purely current interest and have not endeavored to place incidents and events in their proper perspective. I have attempted to bring into focus all the varied and im portant effects of the impact of the Teamsters Union on the national economy. The task was difficult because of the complex nature of many of the problems faced by the union and because of the intricate internal and external structural relationships characteristic of the teamsters organization. There are only a few men in the union who are fully aware of the many aspects of the problems which the teamsters must meet and who are willing to discuss these matters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.