Sitdown strike
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A sit-down strike is a labour strike and a form of civil disobedience in which an organized group of workers, usually employed at factories or other centralized locations, take unauthorized or illegal
Women workers at the Works Progress Administration on strike in 1936.
Sitdown strikers in the Flint strike of General Motors, 1937
Striking mine workers receiving bread during a 1936 strike at Fosse Arenberg
Little Steel strike
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The Little Steel strike was a 1937 labor strike by the Congress of Industrial Organizations and its branch the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, against a number of smaller steel producing companies
Sitdown strike
…in the United States, but became "a weapon of the militant rank and file," when they were willing to act outside of official union channels (See: Little Steel strike). Such wildcat strikes, such as two stoppages at Chrysler plants in Detroit in 1973, sometimes won on-the-job changes. During a 1989 strike of Pittston…
1937 Memorial Day massacre at the Republic Steel Company, Chicago (May 30, 1937)