strike

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• SOURCE: History.com
  9/17/19
  

  The 1936 Strike That Brought America’s Most Powerful Automaker to its Knees

  The historical precedent to this week's GM United Auto Workers union strike. 

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• SOURCE: The Activist History Review
  9/4/19
  

  Labor Organizing in Higher Ed: Lessons from the 1984-85 Yale Strike

  by Jacob Remes

  What might the labor movement still learn from the successes of the 1984-85 Yale strike of mostly-women clerical and technical workers?

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• SOURCE: NPR Codeswitch
  3/21/19
  

  The Student Strike That Changed Higher Ed Forever

  50 years ago, studying the history and culture of any people who were not white and Western was considered radical.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/14/19
  

  Teacher strikes can’t fix the core problems with our schools

  by Diana D'Amico

  The forces that once led to the growth of suburban schools have led to the decay of their urban counterparts.

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• SOURCE: Time
  1/10/19
  

  The History of American Teacher Strikes—And Where Los Angeles Fits In

  There were more than 1,000 such strikes involving more than 823,000 teachers from July 1960 to June 1974.

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• SOURCE: Corey Robin (blog)
  

  Going on strike? The weird origin of the word labor unions use

  by Corey Robin

  Greg Grandin gives us a fascinating history of the phrase “to strike.”