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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 ...
The data is considered likely un-comprehensive but still used the same definition of strikes as later periods. For this era, all strikes with more than six workers or less than one day were excluded. [3]: 2–3, 36 No concrete data was collected for the amount of strikes from 1906 to 1913 federally. [3]: 2-3, (8-9 in pdf)
1971 Telephone strike: 1971 nationwide 400,000 [6] 1970 General Motors Strike: 1970 nationwide 400,000 Textile workers' strike (1934) 1934 New England, Mid-Atlantic region and U.S. southern states: 400,000 Great Railroad Strike of 1922: 1922 nationwide 400,000 [7] 1955 Steel strike: 1955 nationwide 400,000 [4] 1949 US coal strike: 1949 ...
In 1914 one of the most bitter labor conflicts in American history took place at a mining colony in Colorado called Ludlow. After workers went on strike in September 1913 with grievances ranging from requests for an eight-hour day to allegations of subjugation, Colorado governor Elias Ammons called in the National Guard in October 1913. That ...
New Deal Labor Policy and the American Industrial Economy (1987) White, Ahmed. The last great strike: Little Steel, the CIO, and the struggle for labor rights in New Deal America (U of California Press, 2016) online; Zieger, Robert H. The CIO, 1935–1955 (1995). online; Zieger, Robert H. John L. Lewis : labor leader (1988) online
Union violence most typically occurs in specific situations, and has more frequently been aimed at preventing replacement workers from taking jobs during a strike, than at managers or employers. [1] Protest and verbal abuse are routinely aimed against union members or replacement workers who cross picket lines ("blacklegs") during industrial ...
The results of the strikes were varied: The UMW coal strike was a success, winning a 14% wage increase. [20] The steel strike was a crushing defeat without winning their demands and causing almost no union organizing to occur in the sector for the next 15 years. [21] The New England telephone strike was a victory, winning wage increases. [15] [13]
The United States textile workers' strike of 1934, colloquially known later as The Uprising of '34 [4] [2] [1] was the largest textile strike in the labor history of the United States, involving 400,000 textile workers from New England, the Mid-Atlantic states and the U.S. Southern states, lasting twenty-two days.