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The 1918–1920 New York City rent strikes were some of the most significant tenant mobilizations against landlords in New York City history. [2] A housing shortage caused by World War I had exacerbated tenant conditions, with the construction industry being redirected to support the war effort.
The 1918-20 New York City Rent strikes were some of the most significant tenant mobilizations against landlords in NYC history. As a result of a World War 1 housing shortage, a coal shortage during a brutal winter, frequent raising of rents and landlord property speculation; Waves of rent strikes occurred across the entire city among poor and ...
In response, tenants organized into tenants unions and started a mass rent strike in the Lower East Side, the first rent strike in New York City. The strike comprised 800 tenement houses wherein 2,000 tenants faced eviction. [1] Organizing was initially informal, relying on networking among the Jewish community, and primarily relying on women ...
The rent strike of 1904 was the first mass rent strike in New York City's history [5] [1] and lasted nearly a month. [1] It was initially organized informally among Jewish immigrant women in the Lower East Side, [ 5 ] who canvassed the neighborhood for support and organized strategy meetings, pickets, and tenants unions . [ 3 ]
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1904 New York City rent strike; 1907 New York City rent strike; New York shirtwaist strike of 1909; 1912 New York City waiters' strike; 1919 Actors' Equity Association strike; 1919 New York City Harbor strike; 1937 New York City department store strikes; 1949 Calvary Cemetery strike; 1949 New York City brewery strike; 1949 New York City taxicab ...
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Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...