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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 Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 17 (1): 15–52. doi: 10.1177/000271620101700102. ISSN 0002-7162. S2CID 143235255. ^ a b c Analysis of Work Stoppages: 1957 (PDF). Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Labor, United States Government Printing Office. 1958.
The library system is a member of PINES, a program of the Georgia Public Library Service that covers 51 library systems in 143 counties in Georgia. Any resident in a PINES supported library system has access to the system's collection of 10.6 million books. [3]
Tampa cigar makers' strike of 1910–11. 1910 Columbus streetcar strike. Philadelphia general strike (1910) 1911. Illinois Central shopmen's strike of 1911. 1911 Grand Rapids furniture workers strike. Louisiana-Texas Lumber War of 1911–1912. 1912. 1912 Lawrence "Bread & Roses" textile strike.
The textile strike of 1934 was a nationwide three-week effort by a million textile workers, especially in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. At the same time there were local strikes in the North led by the United Textile Workers of America (UTW) of the American Federation of Labor. The Southern strike was led by the newly formed ...
One mill guard death. 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.
Workers for the Scripto company in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, held a labor strike from November 27, 1964, to January 9, 1965. It ended when the company and union agreed to a three-year contract that included wage increases and improved employee benefits.
The US strike wave of 1945–1946 or great strike wave of 1946[1] were a series of massive post-war labor strikes after World War II from 1945 to 1946 in the United States spanning numerous industries including the motion picture (Hollywood Black Friday) and public utilities. In the year after V-J Day, more than five million American workers ...