The 1937 and 1938 San Francisco retail strikes - Michael B Reagan A history of the Department Store Employees Union Local 1100 and the 1937 and 1938 San Francisco…
Atlanta's washerwomen strike, 1881 A short history of the strike of overwhelmingly African-American women laundresses in Atlanta Georgia. Coming only shortly after the abolition of…
Sit-down strikes by women in 1937 - Ivan Greenberg A short account of women workers' participation in the sit down strike wave which swept the US in 1937.
1937 cigar industry strike A history of the sit down strikes by predominantly Polish women workers in Detroit during the great depression: part of a national wave of sit…
Immigrant women beat cigar company bosses - Martha Grevatt A short history of the wave of sitdown strikes by predominantly Polish women cigar makers in Detroit…
The Detroit Woolworth's sitdown strike, 1937 - Marc Norton A short history of the sit-in strike of women workers at Woolworth's in Detroit, which shook the…
Syndicalism on the Shopfloor: the Denver Shop-Stewards Strike, Transvaal, November-December 1919 - EA Mantzaris This paper by Evan Mantzaris provides a critical chronicle of a strike by radical…
The Everett massacre, 1916 - Walt Crowley A short history of the Everett massacre of five members of the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World union who had gone to support…
Industrial action by NHS doctors, 1975 - Steven Johns A short history of the three sets of industrial action which were undertaken by consultants and…
The cycle of struggle 1973 to 1979 in India Gurgaon Workers News on the mass workers' struggles in India in the 1970s and their relevance for the discussion on the relation between crisis,…
The general strike in Salford in 1911 - Edmund and Ruth Frow Great pamphlet about the largely successful general strike for better wages, shorter hours and union…
Wildcat strike at SOAS The School of Oriental and African Studies in London has been shut down today after management suspended a union activist. This is a deveoping…
