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  1. The American Socialist Movement: 1897-1912
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1952
    A history of the American Socialist Party, which at its height had over 150,000 dues-paying members, published hundreds of newspapers, and won almost a million votes for its presidential candidate.
  2. Arizona Copper Mine Strike of 1983
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1983
    Dispute between the Phelps Dodge Corporation and a unionized copper miners.
  3. Auto-Lite strike
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A strike against the Electric Auto-Lite company of Toledo, Ohio, from April 12 to June 3, 1934.
  4. Battle of Blair Mountain
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    In 1921 between 10,000 and 15,000 coal miners confronted company-paid private detectives in an effort to unionize the southwestern West Virginia mine counties.
  5. Battle of Matewan
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A shootout in the coal company town of Matewan, West Virginia on May 19, 1920.
  6. Bay View Massacre
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A massacre of demonstrators by the Wisconsin National Guard.
  7. Bituminous Coal Strike of 1974
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1974
    A 28-day national coal strike in the United States led by the United Mine Workers of America,
  8. Black Workers, Fordism and the UAW
    Book Review of Bates's "The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford"
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    A book review of Beth Tompkins Bates's analysis of how the automotive industry provided an opportunity for African Americans to fight for equal working rights, unionize, and forge an alliance with white workers.
  9. Bread and Roses
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The slogan "Bread and Roses" originated in a poem of that name by James Oppenheim, published in The American Magazine in December 1911, which attributed it to "the women in the West." It is commonly associated with a textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts during January-March 1912, now often known as the "Bread and Roses strike".
  10. Buffalo switchmen's strike
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A strike in August 1892 by railroad workers employed by three railroads in Buffalo, New York.
  11. La Causa
    The California Grape Strike
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    A documentary of the California grape workers' strike.
  12. Centralia Massacre
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A violent and bloody incident that occurred in the town of Centralia, Washington on November 11, 1919 during a parade celebrating the first anniversary of Armistice Day.
  13. Chicago Charter Teachers Strike, Win
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    Reporting on the unprecedented and successful strike of charter school teachers in Chicago.
  14. Coal Strike of 1902
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coal fields of eastern Pennsylvania.
  15. Columbine Mine massacre
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A conflict in which police and mine guards attacked striking coal miners with machine guns.
  16. The Communist Party and socialists during the 1934 Toledo Auto-Lite strike
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    About radicals involvement in the 1934 Toledo Auto-Lite strike.
  17. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 1 - Spring 1984 - Energy - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
  18. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1992
  19. Cripple Creek miners' strike of 1894
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A five-month strike by the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) in Cripple Creek, Colorado, USA.
  20. Cry for "Bread & Roses" Still Resonates
    100 Years After the Lawrence Strike
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    When worker solidarity prevailed over corporate power in the icy streets of Lawrence a century ago, it made the promise of a better life real for many. The Bread and Roses strike became a consciousness-raising experience, not only for textile workers and their families, but the nation as a whole.
  21. Delusions of the Tech Bro Intelligentsia
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    With employees of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system on strike, the Silicon Valley tech elite has reminded us all that despite their enlightened Bay Area lifestyles, they are still, at root, a bunch of rich dudes. Corey Robin ably documents the reactionary politics and moral degeneracy of people who see themselves as heroic entrepreneurs and the people who get them to work as greedy parasites.
  22. Farmworker Movement Documentation Project
    The Farmworker Movement: 1962-1993: Primary source accounts by the UFW volunteers who built the movement
    Resource Type: Website
    The Farmworker Movement Documentation Project, founded in 2003 by LeRoy Chatfield, is a labor of love. The project seeks to compile and publish primary source accounts from the volunteers who worked with Cesar Chavez to build his farmworker movement during the period, 1962-1993.
  23. 50 Years Later, Protesters in Texas Reenact a Farmworker Strike That Is Scarcely Mentioned in History Books
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    In the summer of 1966, hundreds of farm workers in Texas marched from Rio Grande City to Austin -- almost 500 miles over 90 days -- to demand change. They weren’t asking for anything fancy. They wanted better wages, restrooms and uncontaminated water for the people cultivating and picking melons and other crops. Now 50 years later, more than 100 people -- some who were at the original strike in Starr County -- are are marching again.
  24. Flint Sit-Down Strike
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Changed the United Automobile Workers from a collection of isolated locals on the fringes of the industry into a major union and led to the unionization of the United States automobile industry.
  25. The Flint sit-down strike, 1936-1937
    Jeremy Brecher
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    210,000 auto workers joined the American Federation of Labor (A.F.L.) to take part in the strike but the A.F.L leadership however wanted no part in a strike, and managed to postpone it again and again. The workers won control over the rate of production, despite a union contract that conceded this authority to management.
  26. 45 Days of Solidarity
    How Verizon workers outmatched the country's largest telecommunications company.
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    The strike by 39,000 Verizon workers -- members of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) -- ended after forty-five days with a tentative agreement announced late last week.
  27. From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: Miners inspired Marxist-Humanism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The dialectic of the 1949-50 Miners' General Strike, as it transformed from a Lewis-authorized strike that already had lasted some six months into a challenge to John L. Lewis himself, laid the ground for new ways of thinking.
  28. Martin and Jessie Glaberman Collection
    Papers, 1939-2001
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    The papers of the Marxist radicals Martin Glaberman and Jessie Glaberman, now housed at Wayne State University.
  29. The Great Flint Sit-Down Strike Against G.M. 1936-37
    How Industrial Unionism was Won
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1967
    A history of the Flint strike (1936-1937).
  30. Great Railroad Strike of 1877
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Began on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, United States and ended some 45 days later after it was put down by local and state militias.
  31. Great Southwest Railroad Strike of 1886
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A strike against the Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific railroads involving more than 200,000 workers.
  32. Haymarket affair
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Disturbance that took place on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at the Haymarket Square in Chicago.
  33. Homestead Strike
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A labour lockout and strike which began on June 30, 1892, culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6, 1892.
  34. Indianapolis Street Car Strike of 1913
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The Indianapolis Street Car Strike of 1913, the Indianapolis Police Mutiny of 1913, and the 1913 Indianapolis Riots began as a workers strike by the union employees of the Indianapolis Traction and Terminal Company and occurred during November 1913.
  35. The Labor Wars
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    A survey of landmark events in the U.S. labour movement.
  36. Lattimer massacre
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The killing of 19 unarmed striking immigrant anthracite coal miners at the Lattimer mine near Hazleton, Pennsylvania, on September 10, 1897, by a sheriff's posse.
  37. Lawrence textile strike
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A strike of immigrant workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912 led by the Industrial Workers of the World. The strike is often known as the "Bread and Roses" strike, or, "The Strike for Three Loaves".
  38. Leadville Colorado, Miners' Strike
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Occurred as a result of rapid industrialization and consolidation of the mining industry.
  39. Lowell Mill Girls
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Female textile workers in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 19th century.
  40. Ludlow massacre
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The violent deaths of 20 people, 11 of them children, during an attack by the Colorado National Guard on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families at Ludlow, Colorado on April 20, 1914.
  41. The Making of Jericho Road
    Against The Current vol. 132
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    An interview with Michael Honey. The paperback edition of Michael Honey’s Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign is released this January 2008.
  42. Mapping UFW Strikes, Boycotts, and Farm Worker Actions 1965-1975
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    When ethnic Mexican farm workers led by Cesar Chavez joined with Filipino American workers led by Larry Itliong in 1965 to strike grape growers in Delano, California, the modern farm workers movement was born. Operating initially as the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee and later as the UFW, the union spread beyond California as it launched a national grape boycott and inspired farm worker organizing in other states. Researched by Katie Anastas, these maps show the geography of UFW activism, locating more than 1,000 farm worker strikes, boycotts, and other actions.
  43. Mine Wars Museum Opens, Revives Lost Labour History
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Mine Wars museum opens in Matewan to revive West Virginia’s labour history.
  44. Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A strike by Teamsters against most of the trucking companies operating in Minneapolis.
  45. New Orleans general strike of 1892
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A general strike in the U.S. city of New Orleans, Louisiana, that began on November 8, 1892.
  46. Newsboys Strike of 1899
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A youth-led campaign to force change in the way that Joseph Pulitzer's and William Randolph Hearst's newspapers compensated their child labor force.
  47. 1934: American workers in revolt
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    In 1934 three mighty strikes brought the bosses and bankers to their knees and ushered in a new era of labour-capital relations in the United States writes Sean Ledwith
  48. Ninety-Nine Days
    The Ford Strike in Windsor, 1945
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
  49. The Oakland General Strike of 1946
    Resource Type: Article
    An account of the General Strike in Oakland, California.
  50. Port Chicago mutiny
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A refusal by servicemen to load munitions in 1944 in the face of unsafe working conditions which had led to an explosion the previous month in which 320 sailors had been killed.
  51. Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A United States trade union which operated from 1968 until its decertification in 1981 following a strike which was broken by the Reagan Administration.
  52. Rank and File
    Personal Histories of Working Class Organizers
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    A collection of stories and recollections from labour movement organizers.
  53. Recyclers Battle Waste Management... and the Teamsters Union
    With Friends Like These
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    It’s 4 AM. The air is cold and damp on 98th Avenue in deep East Oakland, down along the San Francisco Bay’s industrial waterfront. This is a hard geography of concrete and dust and pot-hole riddled roads latticed by train tracks. Much of the earth is landfill, crowded for miles with scrap metal yards, bakeries, machine shops, and warehouses.
  54. Remembering Another Occupy
    Anniversary of the 1937 Sit-Down Strike Wave
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
  55. Remington Rand strike of 1936-1937
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A strike against the Remington Rand company.
  56. Review: Chris Rhomberg, The Broken Table: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and the State of American Labor (2012)
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Review on Chris Rhomberg's book 'The Broken Table: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and the State of American Labor.'

  57. Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers' Strikes of 1934
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2014
    A book on the Teamster's strike of 1934.
  58. Saint Louis general strike 1877
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Generally accepted as the first general strike in America, the 1877 Saint Louis general strike grew out of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877. The general strike was largely organized by the Knights of Labor and the Marxist-leaning Workingmen's Party, the main radical political party of the era.
  59. Seattle General Strike
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A general work stoppage by over 65,000 workers in the U.S. city of Seattle, Washington in 1919.
  60. Seeds of Fire
    A People's Chronology
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
  61. Shots All Around: How Four Roses Bourbon Workers Won Their Strike
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    Four Roses Bourbon Worked successfully striked over a two-tier contract proposal that would have given worse benefits to new hires.
  62. Slaughterhouse Fight: A Look at the Hormel Strike
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1986
  63. Steel strike of 1952
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A strike by the United Steelworkers of America against U.S. Steel and nine other steelmakers.
  64. The Strike That Didn't Change New York
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The Chicago teachers' strike was a victory for workers around the country. But how do we move from homegrown resistance to a national movement?
    New York City's 1.1 million public school children were stranded without a ride, when eight thousand bus drivers walked off the job, sparking a month-long standoff between Local Amalgamated Transit Union 1181 and Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
  65. Strikes, List of
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The following is a list of deliberate absence from work related to specific working conditions (strikes) or due to general unhappiness with the political order (general strikes).
  66. Taking the Risk Out of Democracy
    Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    The twentieth-century history of corporate propaganda practiced by U.S. businesses and the ways in which such corporate propaganda was exported to, and adopted by, other western democracies especially the United Kingdom and Australia.
  67. Teamsters and Cops
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Minneapolis teamsters in 1934 knew something we should remember -- police enforce the ruling class's unjust order.
  68. Textile workers strike (1934)
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A strike involving 400,000 textile workers from New England, the Mid-Atlantic states and the U.S. Southern states.
  69. A Troublemaker's Handbook 2
    Resource Type: Book
    A manual for workers who want to take control over their lives at work. In hundreds of first-person accounts, workers tell in their own words how they organized and struggled to do that.
  70. The UTLA Victory in Context
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    A look at the bigger picture surrounding the LA teacher's strike as part of the national upsurge that began with the 2012 strike of the Chicago Teachers Union.
  71. Vulnerable Akron: the first great sit-down
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Akron, rubber manufacturing capital of the world. A drab Mid-Western industrial city of 255,000. A city with a hum, a throb, anodor all its own. It made the front pages in February, 1936. A strike had closed the largest tire factory on the globe, which had 14,000 employees.
  72. Want to Stop Trump? Take a Page From These Dockworkers, and Stop Work
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    On the day of Donald Trump's inauguration, many Americans wrung their hands. Some took to social media to express their discontent while others protested. But, perhaps, the most dramatic and important action was taken by dockworkers in Oakland, California: They stopped working. Their strike demonstrated the potential power ordinary people have on the job, when organized.
  73. West Coast waterfront strike 1934
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The 1934 West Coast Longshoremen's Strike lasted eighty-three days, triggered by sailors and a four-day general strike in San Francisco, and led to the unionization of all of the West Coast ports of the United States.
  74. West Virginia Mine War of 1912-1913
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A confrontation between striking coal miners and coal operators in Southern West Virginia
  75. Westmoreland County Coal Strike of 1910 - 1911
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A strike by coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers of America, is also known as the "Slovak strike" because about 70 percent of the miners were Slovakian immigrants.
  76. What Los Angeles Teachers Won
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    A Los Angeles teacher's take on the successful strike.
  77. Working Class Communism
    A Review of the Literature
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
  78. The Working-Class Mini-Revolts of the Twenty-First Century
    Low-Level Insurgencies
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The start of the twenty-first century has seen a continuing decline in union membership and strikes. But it has also seen the emergence of unpredicted mini-revolts.


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