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Chicago and the Labor Movement: Metropolitan Unionism in the 1930's (U of Illinois Press, 1961), strong on clothing, teamsters, steel, meat packing. online; Roscigno, Vincent J. The voice of southern labor: radio, music, and textile strikes, 1929-1934 (2004) online; Taft, Philip. The AF of L. from the Death of Gompers to the Merger (Harper ...
1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; Pages in category "1930s strikes in the United States" The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total.
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)
The strike had begun in the ore mills earlier in 1903, and then spread to the mines. American labor activist Mother Jones (1837–1930) July 1903 (United States) Labor organizer Mary Harris "Mother" Jones leads child workers in demanding a 55-hour work week. 1904 (United States) New York City Interborough Rapid Transit Strike. [25] 1904 (United ...
2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike: 2007–2008 Hollywood, California: 12,000 [40] 1973 Cleveland teachers strike: 1973 Cleveland: 12,000 [5] September 1967 General Motors strike: 1967 Dayton, Ohio: 11,600 [93] [94] 2021 Washington state carpenters strike: 2021 Washington: 11,500 2023 Writers Guild of America strike: 2023
Workers engaged in a wave of strikes, the most since 1921, in 1934. The largest and most significant were three giant strikes for union recognition among longshoremen on the West Coast, truck drivers in Minneapolis, Minnesota and automobile workers in Toledo, Ohio. In each case the strike became either a general strike or something close to it.
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