General Strikes 
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/29/2023
Do French Pension Protests Reveal a Lazy Nation?
by Robert Zaretsky
French workers are among the most productive in Europe, but today's protests over a potential increase in the retirement age show a long tradition of defending the value of leisure as the chance to pursue one's own ends outside of paid labor.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
11/18/2021
Are We Witnessing a General Strike Today?
by Nelson Lichtenstein
DuBois's insight that enslaved people abandoning plantations during the Civil War was a form of general strike helps us understand the seemingly unorganized trend of workers quitting their jobs today as a meaningful labor action that points in the direction of economic freedom.
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