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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).

Contents 1 Chronological list of strikes 1.1 Seventeenth Century 1.2 Eighteenth Century 1.3 Nineteenth century 1.4 20th century 1.4.1 1900s 1.4.2 1910s 1.4.3 1920s 1.4.4 1930s 1.4.5 1940s 1.4.6 1950s 1.4.7 1960s 1.4.8 1970s 1.4.9 1980s 1.4.10 1990s 1.5 21st century 2 Chronological list of general strikes 3 See also 4 Sources 5 External links

[edit] Chronological list of strikes

[edit] Seventeenth Century

• Strike of polish craftmen in Jamestown (1619, British colonies)
• Maine indentured Servants' and Fisherman's Mutiny (1636, Maine, British colonies)
• Virginia's Indentured Servants' Plot (1661, Virginia, British colonies)
• Maryland Indentured Servants' Strike (1663, Maryland, British colonies)
• Boston ship Carpenter's Protest (1675, Massachusetts, British colonies)
• Bacon's Rebellion (1676, Virginia, British colonies)
• New York City Carters' Strike (1677, New York, British colonies)
• New York City Carters' Strike (1684, New York, British colonies)

[edit] Eighteenth Century

• New York City Bakers' Strike (1741, New York, British colonies)
• Florida Indentured Servants' Revolt (1768, Florida, British colonies)
• New York City Tailors' Strike (1768, New York, British colonies)
• Hibernia, New Jersey, Ironworks Strike (1774, New Jersey, British colonies)
• Philadelphia Carpenters - First Strike in the U.S. building trades (1791, U.S.)
• Philadelphia River Pilots' Strike (1792, U.S.)

[edit] Nineteenth century

• Philadelphia shoemakers guilty of criminal conspiracy after striking for higher wages (1806, U.S.)
• Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Textile Strike (1824, U.S.)
• Boston House Carpenters' Strike (1825, U.S.)
• Philadelphia Carpenters' Strike (1827, U.S.)
• Paterson, New Jersey, Textile Strike (1828, U.S.)
• Lynn, Massachusetts, Shoebinders' Protest (1831, U.S.)
• Boston Ship Carpenters' Ten-hour Strike (1832, U.S.)
• Lynn. Massachusetts, Shoebinders' Protest (1833, U.S.)
• Manayunk. Pennsylvania, Textile Protest (1833, U.S.)
• New York City Carpenters' Strike (1833, U.S.)
• Lowell Massachusetts, Mill Women's Strike (1834, U.S.)
• Manayunk Pennsylvania, Textile Protest (1834, U.S.)
• Paterson New Jersey, Textile Strike (1835, U.S.)
• Lowell Massachusetts, Mill Women's Strike (1836, U.S.)
• New York City Tailors' Strike (1836, U.S.)
• Philadelphia Bookbinders' Strike (1836, U.S.)
• New York City Tailors' Strike (1850, U.S.)
• New England Shoemakers' Strike (1860, U.S.)
• Molders' Lockout (1866, U.S.)
• Sheffield Outrages (1860s, UK)
• Anthracite Coal Strike (1868, U.S.)
• Troy New York, Collar Launderesses' Strike (1869, U.S.)
• Lynn Massachusetts, Shoe Workers' Strike (1872, U.S.)
• Tompkins Square Riot (1874) (New York, U.S.)
• Coal miners strikes of 1875
• Great Railroad Strike (1877, U.S.)
• Cigarmakers' Strike (1877, U.S.)
• Sundsvall strike (1879, Sweden)
• Cohoes New York, Cotton Mill Strike (1882, U.S.)
• Cowboy Strike (1883, U.S.)
• Lynchburg Virginia, Tobacco Workers' Strike (1883, U.S.)
• Molders' Lockout (1883, U.S.)
• Fall River Massachusetts, Textile Strike (1884, U.S.)
• Union Pacific Railroad Strike (1884, U.S.)
• Cloakmakers' General Strike (1885, U.S.)
• McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Strike (1885, U.S.)
• Southwest Railroad Strike (1885, U.S.)
• Yonkers New York, Carpet Weavers' Strike (1885, U.S.)
• Augusta Georgia, Textile Strike (1886, U.S.)
• Cowboy Strike (1886, U.S.)
• Eight-Hour Strikes (1886, U.S.)
• McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Strike (1886, U.S.)
• Southwest Railroad Strike (1886, U.S.)
• Troy New York, Collar Launderesses' Strike (1886, U.S.)
• Great Southwest Railroad Strike of 1886 (U.S.)
• Haymarket Affair (1886, U.S.)
• Bay View Tragedy (1886, U.S.)
• Port of New York, Longshoremens' Strike (1887, U.S.)
• Burlington Railroad Strike (1888, U.S.)
• Cincinnati Shoemakers' Lockout (1888, U.S.)
• Matchgirls Strike (1888, London)
• London Dock Strike of 1889
• Baseball Players' Revolt (1889, U.S.)
• Fall River Massachusetts, Textile Strike (1889, U.S.)
• 1890 Australian Maritime Dispute
• Southampton Dock Strike of 1890 (UK)
• Carpenters' Strike for the Eight-Hour Day (1890, U.S.)
• 1891 Australian shearers' strike
• Savanna Georgia, Black Laborers' Strike (1891, U.S.)
• Tennessee Miners' Strike (1891, U.S.)
• Homestead Strike (1892, U.S.) gains national attention
• Buffalo switchmen's strike (1892, U.S.)
• Coeur d'Alene Miners' Strike (1892, U.S.)
• Coxey's Army marches on Washington D.C. (1894, U.S.)
• Cripple Creek miners' strike of 1894 (U.S.)
• Pullman Strike (1894, U.S.)
• Great Northern Railroad Strike (1894, U.S.)
• Bituminous Coal Miners' Strike (1894) Birmingham, Alabama
• Haverhill Massachusetts Shoe Strike (1895, U.S.)
• Leadville Colorado, Miners' Strike (1896))
• Lattimer Massacre Strike (1897, Pennsylvania)
• Marlboro Massachusetts, Shoe Workers' Strike (1888, U.S.)
• Buffalo New York, Grain Shovellers' Strike (1899, U.S.)
• Cleveland Ohio, Street Railway Workers' Strike (1899, U.S.)
• Coeur d'Alene Miners' Strike (1899, U.S.)
• Newsboys Strike of 1899 (New York City, U.S.)

[edit] 20th century

[edit] 1900s

• Anthracite Coal Strike (1900, U.S.)
• Machinists' Strike (1900, U.S.)
• Penrhyn Quarry lock-out (1900-1903, Wales)
• U.S. Steel Recognition Strike of 1901 (U.S.)
• Machinists' Strike (1901, U.S.)
• San Francisco Restaurant Workers' Strike (1901, U.S.)
• Anthracite Coal Strike (1902, U.S.)
• Chicago Teamsters' Strike (1902, U.S.)
• Cripple Creek Colorado, Miners' Strike (1902, U.S.)
• Colorado Labor Wars, Western Federation of Miners (1903-1904, U.S.)
• Oxnard Strike of 1903 (U.S.)
• Utah Coal Strike (1903, U.S.)
• New York City Interborough Rapid Transit Strike 991904, U.S.)
• Packinghouse Workers' Strike (1904, U.S.)
• Santa Fe Railroad Shopmen's Strike (1904, U.S.)
• Cananea Strike (1905, Sonora, Mexico)
• Goldfield Nevada, Miners' Strike (1907 U.S.)
• Río Blanco Strike (1907 Mexico)
• New York shirtwaist strike of 1909 "Uprising of the 20,000" (1909, U.S.)
• Georgia Railroad Strike (1909, U.S.)
• McKees Rocks Pennsylvania, Steel Strike (1909, U.S.)
• Watertown Connecticut, Arsenal Strike (1909, U.S.)
• 1909 Swedish General Strike

[edit] 1910s

• Westmoreland County Coal Strike of 1910-1911 (U.S.)
• 1911 Liverpool General Transport Strike (UK)
• Lawrence textile strike, often known as the Bread and Roses strike (1912, Lawrence, Massachusetts)
• Waihi miners' strike (1912, Waihi, New Zealand)
• Louisiana Timber Workers' Strike (1912, U.S.)
• West Virginia Mine War of 1912-1913 (U.S.)
• Dublin Strike and Lockout (1913, Ireland)
• Ludlow Massacre Strike (1913, Colorado)
• Paterson silk strike (1913, Paterson, New Jersey)
• Burston Strike School (1914-1939, UK)
• BLE Strike in New York City (1918, U.S.)
• Vancouver general strike (1918, Canada)
• Police officers' strike, (1918-19) United Kingdom
• Centralia Massacre (Washington) (1919, U.S.)
• Boston Police Strike (1919, U.S.)
• 1919 Battle of George Square (UK)
• Seattle General Strike of 1919
• Steel strike of 1919 (U.S.)
• Winnipeg General Strike (1919, Canada)

[edit] 1920s

• Battle of Matewan (1920, U.S.)
• Alabama Miners' Strike (1920, U.S.)
• Clothing Workers' Lockout (1920, U.S.)
• West Virginia Coal Wars (1920-21, U.S.)
• Battle of Blair Mountain (1921, U.S.)
• Seamen's Strike (1921, U.S.)
• Black Friday (1921) (UK)
• Great Railroad Strike of 1922 (U.S.)
• Herrin massacre (1922, U.S.)
• Anthracite Coal Strike (1922, U.S.)
• Bituminous Coal Strike (1922, U.S.)
• Railroad Shopmen's Strike (1922, U.S.)
• 1923 Victorian Police strike (Australia)
• Ammanford Anthracite Strike (1925, UK)
• Anthracite Coal Strike (1925, U.S.)
• Stripa Labour Conflict (Sweden, 1925)
• Passaic New Jersey, Textile Strike (1926, U.S.)
• Bituminous Coal Strike (1927, U.S.)
• Columbine Mine Massacre Strike (1927, U.S.)
• New Bedford Massachusetts, Textile Strike (1928, U.S.)
• Banana massacre (1928, Colombia)
• 1929 Timber Workers strike (Australia)
• Lupeni Strike of 1929 (Romania)
• Rothbury Riot (1929, Australia)
• Loray Mill Strike (1929, U.S.)
• Gastonia North Carolina, Textile Strike (1929, U.S.)

[edit] 1930s

• Imperial Valley California, Farmworkers' Strike (1929, U.S.)
• Tampa Florida, Cigar Workers' Strike (1931, U.S.)
• Ådalen shootings (1931, Sweden)
• Battle of Evarts, Harlan County Mining Strike (1931, U.S.)
• Invergordon Mutiny (1931, UK)
• California Pea Pickers' Strike (1932, U.S.)
• Century Airlines Pilots' Strike (1932, U.S.)
• Davidson-Wiler Tennessee, Coal Strike (1932, U.S.)
• Ford Hunger March Detroit Michigan (1932, U.S.)
• Vacaville California, Tree Pruners' Strike (1932, U.S.)
• Griviţa Strike of 1933 (Romania)
• Briggs Manufacturing Strike (1933, U.S.)
• California Farmworkers' Strike (1933, U.S.)
• Detroit Michigan Tool and Die Strike (1933, U.S.)
• New Mexico Miners' Strike (1933, U.S.)
• Harlem New York, Jobs-for-Negroes-Boycott (1934, U.S.)
• Kohler Strike, Sheboygan, Wisconsin (1934, U.S.)
• Imperial Valley California, Farmworkers' Strike (1934, U.S.)
• Auto-Lite Strike (1934, Toledo, Ohio, U.S.)
• Textile Workers' Strike (1934, U.S.)
• Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934 (U.S.)
• Rubber Workers' Strike (1934, U.S.)
• Textile workers Strike (1934) (U.S.)
• 1934 West Coast Longshore Strike (U.S.)
• NewarkStar-Ledger Strike (1934, U.S.)
• Battle of Ballantyne Pier (1935, Canada)
• Copperbelt strike (1935) (Zambia)
• Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri Metal workers' strike (1935, U.S.)
• Pacific Northwest Lumber Strike (1935, U.S.)
• On-to-Ottawa Trek (1935)
• Southern Sharecroppers' and Farm Laborers' Strike (1935, U.S.)
• Atlanta Georgia, Auto Workers' Sit-Down Strike (1936, U.S.)
• Berkshire Knitting Mills Strike (1936, U.S.)
• General Motors Sit-Down Strike (1936, U.S.)
• RCA Strike (1936, U.S.)
• Seamens' Strike (1936, U.S.)
• Seattle Post-Intelligencer Newspaper Strike (1936, U.S.)
• Rubber Workers' Strike (1936, U.S.)
• S.S. California strike (1936, U.S.)
• Remington Rand strike of 1936-1937 (U.S.)
• Flint Sit-Down Strike General Motors (1936-1937, U.S.)
• Hershey Pennsylvania, Chocolate Workers' Strike (1937, U.S.)
• Memorial Day massacre of 1937 "Little Steel Strike" (U.S.)
• Chicago Newspaper Strike (1938, U.S.)
• Maytag Strike (1938, U.S.)
• Hilo Hawaii Massacre (1938, U.S.)
• Chrysler Auto Strike (1939, U.S.)
• General Motors Tool and Diemakers' Strike (1939, U.S.)

[edit] 1940s

• Ford Motor Strike (1940, U.S.)
• Disney animators' strike (1941, U.S.)
• Allis-Chalmers Strike (1941, U.S.)
• Captive Coal Miners' Strike (1941, U.S.)
• Detroit Michigan, Hate Strike against Black Workers (1941, U.S.)
• February Strike (1941, Netherlands)
• International Harvester Strike (1941, U.S.)
• New York City Bus Strike (1941, U.S.)
• North American Aviation Strike (1941, U.S.)
• 1942 Luxembourg General Strike (1942, Luxembourg)
• 1942-43 musicians' strike (U.S.)
• Bituminous Coal Strike (1943, U.S.)
• Detroit Michigan, Hate Strike against Black Workers (1943, U.S.)
• Detroit Michigan Race Riot (1943, U.S.)
• Hollywood Black Friday (U.S.)
• Philadelphia Transit Strike (1944, U.S.)
• Port Chicago mutiny (1944, U.S.)
• Kelsey-Hayes Strike (1945, U.S.)
• New York City Longshoreman's Strike (1945, U.S.)
• Montgomery Ward Strike (1945, U.S.)
• Oil Workers' Strike (1945, U.S.)
• 1945 Swedish Metal Workers' Strike
• Bituminous Coal Strike (1946, U.S.)
• Electrical Manufacturing Strike (1946, U.S.)
• General Motors' Strike (1946, U.S.)
• Pittsburgh Power Strike (1946, U.S.)
• Railroad Strike (1946, U.S.)
• Steel Strike (1946, U.S.)
• 1946 Pilbara strike, (Western Australia)
• R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Strike (1947, U.S.)
• Telephone Strike (1947, U.S.)
• 1948 Queensland Railway strike (Australia)
• Asbestos Strike (1949) Quebec, Canada
• 1949 Australian coal strike (1949)
• Hawaiian Dock Strike (1949, U.S.)

[edit] 1950s

• Atlanta transit strike of 1950 (U.S.)
• "Salt of the Earth" Strike of New Mexico Miners (1950, U.S.)
• New Zealand waterfront strike (1951)
• 1952 steel strike (1952, U.S.)
• Louisiana Sugarcane Workers' Strike (1953, U.S.)
• Kohler Strike (1954, U.S.)
• Southern Telephone Strike (1955, U.S.)
• East Coast Longshoreman's Strike (1956, U.S.)
• Steel Strike (1956, U.S.)
• Hock Lee bus riots (1955, Singapore)
• Steel strike of 1959 (U.S.)

[edit] 1960s

• General Electric Strike (1960, U.S.)
• Seamen's Strike (1960, U.S.)
• 1960 Writers Guild of America strike (U.S.)
• New York City Newspaper Strike (1962, U.S.)
• East Coast Longshoreman's Strike (1962, U.S.)
• Reesor Siding Strike of 1963 (Canada)
• 1964 Mt Isa Mines Strike (1964-5, Australia)
• Delano grape strike (1965-1970, U.S.)
• 1966 New York City transit strike (U.S.)
• St. John's University strike of 1966-1967 (U.S.)
• Hong Kong 1967 Leftist Riots
• Gurindji Strike (1966, Australia)
• New York City Transportation Strike (1966, U.S.)
• Copper Strike (1967, U.S.)
• Florida statewide teachers' strike of 1968 (U.S.)
• Charleston, South Carolina, Hospital Workers' Strike (1969, U.S.)
• Montreal Police Strike (1969, Canada) see also Murray-Hill riot
• The President National Strike (1969, US)

[edit] 1970s

• Colour Strike (1970-1971, UK)
• U.S. Postal Service strike of 1970 first U.S. nationwide strike of public employees
• General Motors Strike (1970, U.S.)
• New York City Police Strike (1971, U.S.)
• Farrah Clothing Workers' Strike and Boycott (1972, U.S.)
• Lordstown Ohio, Auto Workers' Strike (1972, U.S.)
• Philadelphia Teachers' Strike (1972, U.S.)
• 1972 Major League Baseball strike (U.S.)
• Coal miners' strike of 1973 (UK)
• Baltimore police strike (1974, U.S.)
• 1974 UPR strike
• Bituminous Coal Strike of 1974 (U.S.)
• Ulster Workers' Council Strike (1974, UK)
• Washington Post Pressmen's Strike (1975, U.S.)
• Japan National Railway Workers Union seven-days strike (1975, Japan)
• Grunwick Dispute (1976-1977) London
• Atlanta Sanitation Workers' Strike (1977, U.S.)^[1]
• Coors Beer Strike and Boycott (1977, U.S.)
• J.P. Stevens Boycott (1977, U.S.)
• Willmar Minnesota, Bank Workers' Strike (1977, U.S.)
• Bituminous Coal Strike of 1977-1978 (U.S.)
• Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania, Newspaper Strike (1978, U.S.)
• Sudbury Strike of 1978 (Canada)
• Winter of Discontent (1978-1979, UK)
• Independent Truckers' Strike (1979, U.S.)

[edit] 1980s

• 1980 Swedish labour conflict
• 1980 New York City transit strike (April 1980, U.S.)
• 1980 AFTRA/Screen Actors Guild strike (summer 1980, U.S.)
• Gdańsk Shipyard Strike (August 1980, Poland)
• Air traffic controllers' strike/Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (1981, U.S.)
• Bydgoszcz events (March 1981, Poland)
• 1981 UPR strike
• 1981 Writers Guild of America strike (U.S.)
• 1981 Major League Baseball strike (U.S.)
• Arizona Copper Mine Strike of 1983 (1983, U.S.)
• Yale University Clerical Workers' Strike (1984, U.S.)
• Battle of Orgreave (1984, UK)
• UK Miners' Strike (1984-1985)
• Hormel Meatpackers' Strike (1985, U.S.)
• Los Angeles County Sanitary Workers' Strike (1985, U.S.)
• Yale University Clerical Workers' Strike (1985, U.S.)
• Chicago Tribune Strike (1986, U.S.)
• Trans World Airlines Flight Attendants' Strike (1986, U.S.)
• United States Steel Lockout (1986, U.S.)
• Major Indoor Soccer League Lockout two-week lockout (1986 U.S.)
• Wapping dispute (1986, UK)
• International Paper strike (1987, U.S.)
• Professional Football Players' Strike (1987, U.S.)
• 1988 Writers Guild of America strike (U.S.)
• 1989 Australian pilots' strike
• Eastern Airline Workers' Strike (1989, U.S.)
• Pittston Coal Strike (1989-90, U.S.)

[edit] 1990s

• Mandal Commission protests of 1990 (India, 1990)
• Timex strike (1993)
• 1994 Major League Baseball strike (U.S.)
• Alcan Aluminum Strike (Canada 1995)
• Detroit Newspaper Strike (13 July 1995—14 February 1997)
• Liverpool Dockers' Strike (1995-1998)
• 1995 strikes in France
• 1996-1997 strikes in South Korea
• 1997 UPS Strike (U.S.)
• 1998 Australian waterfront dispute
• 1999 Vieques Strikes
• 1999 UNAM strike

[edit] 21st century

• National Gallery of Canada employees 9-week strike (2001, Canada)
• Actors Strike 2001
• UK Firefighter strike 2002
• AFSCME, CUE, UPTE - one day Strikes against University of California (2003, U.S.)
• Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike (2003)
• Southern California Supermarket strike of 2003-2004 (U.S)
• 2003 Broadway Musicians Strike (US)
• 2004 CN Rail workers strike (Canada)
• 2004 Japanese Professional Baseball Workers Union two-days strike
• 2004-05 NHL lockout (U.S. and Canada)
• Bolivian Gas War (2005)
• 2005 New York City transit strike
• 2005 UPR strike
• 2006 USW Strike (U.S. and Canada)
• 2006 AK Steel Strike (U.S.)
• 2006 labor protests in France
• 2006 Oaxaca protests (Mexico)
• 2006 Progressive Enterprises dispute (New Zealand)
• South Korean railroad strike of 2006
• 2006 TTC wildcat strike
• University of Miami 2006 custodial workers' strike (U.S.)
• 2007 UAW Local 3520 Wildcat strike, Freightliner, Cleveland NC
• 2007 South African public servants' strike
• 2007 Orange County transit strike (U.S.)
• Hayward teachers strike (2007, U.S.)
• 2007 General Motors strike (U.S.)
• 2007 Chrysler Autoworkers strike (U.S.)
• 2007 UK postal strikes
• 2007 St. Petersburg Ford Motors Strike (Russia)
• 2007 United Space Alliance strike (U.S.)^[2]
• 2007 Broadway Stagehand Strike (U.S)
• SEMCO Energy Gas Company Strike (2007, U.S.)
• Port of Napier Strike (2007, New Zealand)
• November 2007 strikes in France
• German national rail strike of 2007
• 2007 South Africa miners' strike
• 2007-2008 Cork players strike
• 2007-08 Writers Guild of America strike (U.S.)
• 2008 Puerto Rico Teacher's Federation strike
• 2008 Egyptian general strike
• 2008 British teacher's strike
• 2008 American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc. (U.S.)

[edit] Chronological list of general strikes

• 1820 Rising, Scotland
• Saint Louis General Strike, (1877, U.S.)
• New Orleans General Strike (1892, U.S.)
• Philadelphia General Strike (1910, U.S.)
• 1912 Brisbane General Strike, Queensland, Australia
• Seattle General Strike of 1919
• Winnipeg General Strike of 1919
• UK general strike of 1926
• French general strike of 1933
• San Francisco general strike of 1934
• Uprising of 1953 in East Germany
• Yleislakko 1956
• French general strike of May 1968
• Uruguay general strike of 1973
• Ulster Workers' Council Strike, 1974
• Spanish general strike of 1988
• April 1992 general strike in Nepal
• 1998 Puerto Rican General Strike
• Venezuelan general strike of 2002-2003
• 2006 democracy movement in Nepal
• 2007 Guinea general strike

[edit] See also

• Timeline of Labor unions in the United States

[edit] Sources

Labor conflict in the United States, An encyclopedia. edited by Ronald Filippelli, assisted by Carol Reilly - Garland Publishing New York & London 1990 (ISBN: 082407968X)

[edit] External links

• Chronology of general strikes
• List of labor events in U.S. history
• Recent strikes and other labour news