life: The first recorded organized workers’ strike wasn’t at an...

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The first recorded organized workers’ strike wasn’t at an English coal mine or a French auto plant — but at a necropolis, or huge burial ground, in ancient Egypt in the 12th century BC. (It worked; authorities raised the artisan’s wages.) But it was the Industrial Revolution nearly 3,000 years later — and the rise of the modern labor movement in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries — that sparked the enormous, sometimes violent, frequently history-making strikes we remember today. Sometimes strikes succeed; just as often, they’re broken, either by attrition, or by brute force. But the driving beliefs behind virtually all labor actions — that workers deserve humane working conditions, a living wage, and freedom from management or governmental corruption — remain the same.

Strike! Famous Worker Uprisings

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