Battles in the Telluride mines, 1901-1903 - Louis Adamic A short history of the striking workers who took over the mines in Telluride, Colorado, and the…
The Knights of Labor, 1869-1885 - Louis Adamic Louis Adamic's short history of the Knights of Labor union and some of its key disputes from its founding in 1869 until its successful railway…
"It will ignite again": Strike at large shoe-factories in Dongguan, China Recently, the city of Dongguan in the Pearlriver-delta saw the biggest strike of migrant workers so…
King Coal - Upton Sinclair Upton Sinclair's first novel about the conditions of miners in America, and documents the strikes of 1914-15 in Colorado.
33 country fast food strike - TEFL lesson A lesson plan around the "Fight for 15 campaign" and a recent international one-day strike in support of US fast food workers fighting for better…
Dynamite: the story of class violence in America - Louis Adamic Complete PDF of Louis Adamic's superb history of class violence in the US. It traces the origins of…
Strike in Shanghai in May 2014 The wave of strikes in China's industrial heart lands continues. This is an example of a strike in Shanghai. As often, the Chinese state and…
"If Gezi never happened, the anger at mass murder at Soma could not have burst forth from the people" In keeping with tradition, the following is an interview with Turkish IWW member…
Strike: a live history, 1887-1971 - Robert Leeson A great set of short, first person accounts of strike action and industrial disputes in the UK from a broad range of workers from the late 19th…
Sabotage: a study in industrial conflict - Geoff Brown A superb and detailed 1977 study of the practice of worker sabotage of production, particularly by…
Turkish miners: Soma workers murdered for profits Hundreds of thousands of workers have taken part in a one-day strike, and clashes with police have broken out, after hundreds of coal miners died…
10 July: a ‘season of struggle’? An initial response to the announcement from the People’s Assembly that there will be a ‘mass strike’ on 10 July this year.