Images from the 1946 Oakland general strike. Mostly taken from the University of California-Berkeley's online archive. Copied to clipboard United States 1940s general strikes Oakland AFL Comments
1946: The Oakland general strike - Stan Weir An account by Stan Weir of the gen strike in Oakland, California, in 1946.
The Oakland general strike - Richard Boyden This article by Richard Boyden is the most comprehensive account of the 1946 Oakland General Strike. It relies extensively on first-hand sources,…
Images from 1946 Rochester general strike Pictures from the 1946 Rochester, New York general strike, which happened in response to the mass firings of city workers attempting to organize…
The 1946 General Strike of Rochester, New York An article about a general strike that happened in Rochester, NY over the AFL's efforts in organizing city workers.
The CIO, 1935-1955 - Robert H. Zieger A comprehensive, if institutional, history of the CIO, an American federation of industrial unions that organized many of the mass industries in…
Stan Weir's oral history of the 1946 Oakland general strike This is the transcription of a 1990 interview with Stan Weir for the Virtual Aural/Oral History…
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