The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work in an attempt to change their conditions in a particular industry or individual workplace, or in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized political campaign on a broader national or international level).
Date | Strike | Place | Country |
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1619 | Polish craftsmen strike | Jamestown | Thirteen Colonies |
Indentured Servants' and Fisherman's Mutiny | Province of Maine | Thirteen Colonies | |
1661 | Indentured Servants' Plot | Virginia colony | Thirteen Colonies |
1684 | Carters' Strike | New York City | Thirteen Colonies |
Date | Strike | Place | Country |
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1741 | Bakers' Strike | New York City, Province of New York | Thirteen Colonies |
1763 | Chimney Sweepers' Strike | Charleston, Province of Carolina | Thirteen Colonies |
1766 | Silver Miners' Strike | Mineral del Monte | Mexico |
1768 | Indentured Servants' Revolt | East Florida | Territory of Great Britain |
1768 | Tailors' Strike | New York City, Province of New York | Thirteen Colonies |
1774 | Ironworks Strike | Hibernia, Province of New Jersey | Thirteen Colonies |
1786 | Printers Strike | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Thirteen Colonies |
1787 | Weavers Strike | Calton, Glasgow | Scotland |
1791 | Carpenters Strike– First Strike in the U.S. building trades | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | United States |
1792 | River Pilots' Strike | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | United States |
1793 | Tailors' Strike | Wrocław | Poland |
Date | Strike | Place | Country |
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1806 | Shoemakers' strike | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | United States |
1824 | Textile Strike | Pawtucket, Rhode Island | United States |
1825 | House Carpenters' Strike | Boston, Massachusetts | United States |
1827 | Carpenters' Strike | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | United States |
1828 | Cocheco Mills Strike | Dover, New Hampshire | United States |
1828 | Textile Strike | Paterson, New Jersey | United States |
1831 | Live in work, die in fight | Lyon | France |
1831 | Shoebinders' Protest | Lynn, Massachusetts | United States |
1832 | Ship Carpenters' Ten-hour Strike | Boston, Massachusetts | United States |
1833 | Shoebinders' Protest | Lynn. Massachusetts, | United States |
1833 | Textile Protest | Manayunk, Pennsylvania, | United States |
1833 | Carpenters' Strike | New York City | United States |
1834 | Mill Women's Strike | Lowell, Massachusetts | United States |
1834 | Textile Protest | Manayunk Pennsylvania | United States |
1835 | Carpenters Strike | Boston, Massachusetts | United States |
1835 | General Strike | Philadelphia | United States |
1835 | Textile Strike | Paterson, New Jersey | United States |
1836 | Mill Women's Strike | Lowell Massachusetts | United States |
1836 | Tailors' Strike | New York City | United States |
1836 | Bookbinders' Strike | Philadelphia | United States |
July 6, 1847 | Silk Workers protests | Kashmir | India |
1848 | Copper Miners' Strike | Burra, South Australia | Australia |
Date | Strike | Place | Country |
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1850 | Tailors' Strike | New York City | United States |
1860 | Shoemakers' Strike | New England | United States |
1864 | Moonta Mines & Wallaroo Copper Miners' Strike | Copper Coast | Australia |
1865 | Upper Peninsula miners' strike | Marquette, Michigan | United States |
1866 | Molders' Lockout | United States | |
1869 | Collar Launderesses' Strike | Troy, New York | United States |
1872 | Shoe Workers' Strike | Lynn, Massachusetts | United States |
1874 | Tompkins Square Riot | New York City | United States |
1874 | Sugar(wages)Strike Riot | Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana | United States |
1875 | Coal miners strikes | United States |
1877 | Great Railroad Strike | nationwide | United States [1] |
1877 | Cigarmakers' Strike | New York City | United States |
1882 | Cotton Mill Strike | Cohoes, New York | United States |
1883 | Cowboy Strike | United States | |
1883 | Tobacco Workers' Strike | Lynchburg, Virginia | United States |
1883 | Molders' Lockout | United States | |
1884 | Textile Strike | Fall River, Massachusetts | United States |
1884 | Union Pacific Railroad Strike | nationwide | United States |
1885 | Cloakmakers' General Strike | United States | |
1885 | McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Strike | Chicago, Illinois | United States |
1885 | Southwest Railroad Strike | nationwide | United States |
1885 | Carpet Weavers' Strike | Yonkers, New York | United States |
1886 | Textile Strike | Augusta, Georgia | United States |
1886 | Cowboy Strike | Great Plains | United States |
1886 | Eight-Hour Strikes | nationwide | United States |
Date | Name | Place | Country |
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1820 | Radical War | Scotland | United Kingdom |
1842 | 1842 General Strike | England | United Kingdom |
1877 | 1877 St. Louis general strike | St. Louis, Missouri | United States |
1886 | Walloon jacquerie of 1886 | Wallonia | Belgium |
1887 | Sugar cane workers | Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana | United States |
1892 | 1892 New Orleans general strike | New Orleans, Louisiana | United States |
1893 | Belgian general strike of 1893 | Mons | Belgium |
1909 | Swedish general strike | nationwide | Sweden |
1910 | Philadelphia general strike | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | United States |
1912 | 1912 Brisbane general strike | Brisbane, Queensland | Australia |
1918 | Vancouver general strike | Vancouver, British Columbia | Canada |
Labor conflict in the United States, An encyclopedia. edited by Ronald Filippelli, assisted by Carol Reilly – Garland Publishing New York & London 1990 (ISBN 0-8240-7968-X)
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