Labor Strikes and Their Impact on America’s Industrial Development
Believed to be the First: Jamestown Polish craftsmen's strike of 1619
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1619_Jamestown_craftsmen_strike
The Lowell Mill Girls Go on Strike, 1836
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5714
Battle of Blair Mountain: Two mine wars fought in West Virginia from 1912-1921
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/battle-of-blair-mountain/
The Homestead Strike: Carnegie Steel vs. Steelworkers’ Union- The Army and Pinkertons Summoned Against Workers
https://www.history.com/topics/industrial-revolution/homestead-strike
The Coal Strike of 1902: Turning Point in U.S. Policy
https://www.dol.gov/general/aboutdol/history/coalstrike
Farm Workers Strike of 1965
https://depts.washington.edu/moves/UFW_geography.shtml
Operation Dixie: Southern segregation, racism and a militarized police meant the plan was destined to fail
https://timeline.com/operation-dixie-was-a-quixotic-attempt-to-unionize-the-south-61fdd7dd0810
Strikes and Strife in New Hampshire’s Mills
https://www.nhradicalhistory.org/story/strikes-and-strife-in-manchesters-mills/
The Transcontinental Railroad Chinese Worker’s Strike
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/tcrr-chinese-workers-strike/
Some of the Issues That Led Women to Strike
https://time.com/4687509/day-without-a-woman-history-womens-strikes/
Great Railroad Strike of 1877
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Great-Railroad-Strike-of-1877
The 1975 Junior Doctors’ Strike
https://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h6155
Grand Challenge: Understanding the American Experience
ERC Grand Challenges: For project design, for inquiry, for activism
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. Public domain.
