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Introduction to the Encyclopedia of strikes in American history / Aaron Brenner
Types of strikes / Aaron Brenner
Strikes: theory and practice
Introduction / by Aaron Brenner
Strikes in American history / Aaron Brenner
Theories of strikes / Gerald Friedman
Socialist theories of strikes / Christopher Phelps
The news media and strikes / Christopher R. Martin
The business community's mercenaries: strikebreakers and union busters / Robert Smith
Corporate strike strategy / Kim Phillips-Fein
The decline of strikes / Jeremy Brecher
Strike lessons from the last twenty-five years: what it takes to walk out and win / Steve Early
Strikes and working class culture
Introduction / by Benjamin Day
Dressed for defiance: the clothing of female strikers, 1910-1935 / Deirdre Clemente
Better than a hundred speeches: the strike song / Timothy P. Lynch
Civil rights strikes / Todd Michney
World War II hate strikes / James Wolfinger
Polish workers and strikes, 1900-1937 / James S. Pula
North Carolina women on strike / Roxanne Newton
The Catholic Church and strikes / Dan La Botz
Strikes led by the Trade Union Unity League, 1929-1934 / Victor G. Devinatz.

Strike waves
Introduction / by Aaron Brenner
The strike wave of 1877 / John P. Lloyd
World War I era strikes / Cecelia Bucki
The rise and fall of the sit-down strike / Rachel Meyer
The 1945-1946 strike wave / Jack Metzgar
Strikes in the United States since World War II / Nicola Pizzolato
Public sector strikes
Introduction / by Immanuel Ness
Labor and the Boston police strike of 1919 / Joseph Slater
Teachers' strikes / John P. Lloyd
Postal workers' strikes / Aaron Brenner
Three strikes against the New York City transit system / Michael Hirsch
Social workers and strikes / Howard Karger
Strikes in the private sector
Introduction / by Immanuel Ness
Manufacturing, mining, and agricultural strikes
Introduction / by Immanuel Ness
Strikes and apprenticeship in the United States / Daniel Jacoby
Strikes in the nineteenth-century cotton textile industry in the Northeast United States / Mary H. Blewett
Twentieth-century textile strikes / David J. Goldberg
Garment worker strikes / Paul Le Blanc
Steel strikes before 1935 / John Hinshaw
Steel on strike: from 1936 to the present / Robert Bruno
Unionizing the "jungle": a century of meatpacking strikes / Jackie S. Gabriel
Automobile workers' strikes / Ian Collin Greer
Rubber workers' strikes / John L. Woods
Plumbing strikes / Kim Phillips-Fein
Agricultural strikes / Dan La Botz
Labor and the transformation of the Hawaiian sugar industry / Edward D. Beechert
The Redwoods Lumber and Sawmill Workers' strike / Calvin Winslow
The Watsonville Cannery strike, 1985-1987 / Myrna Cherkoss Donahoe
Coal miners on strike and the formation of a national union / Jon Amsden and Stephen Brier
Mesabi Iron Miners' strikes / Gerald Ronning
The rise and fall of rank-and-file miner militancy, 1964-2007 / Paul J. Nyden.

Infrastructure industry strikes
Introduction / by Benjamin Day
Labor upheaval on the nation's railroads, 1877-1922 / Theresa Ann Case
Strikes by telegraph workers / Anthony J. Silva
Telegraph messenger strikes and their impact on telegraph unionization / Greg Downey
Trolley wars / Scott Molloy
Seafarers' strikes in American history / Nathan Lillie
Longshoremen's strikes, 1900-1920 / Calvin Winslow
Strikes on the port of New York 1945-1960 / William Mello
Strikes in the U.S. airline industry, 1919-2004 / David J. Walsh
Aerospace engineer strikes / Stan Sorscher
Teamster strikes and organizing, 1934-1964
Service industry strikes
Introduction / by Benjamin Day
Newsboy strikes / Jon Bekken
Retail workers' strikes / Daniel J. Opler
Waitress strikes / Dorothy Sue Cobble
Office workers' strikes / Vernon Mogensen
Strikes in the motion picture industry / Andrew Dawson
Attorney strikes at the Legal Aid Society of New York City / Michael Z. Letwin
Musician strikes / Damone Richardson
Striking the ivory tower: student employee strikes at private universities / Mandi Isaacs Jackson
The Boston University strike of 1979 / Gary Zabel
Strikes by professional athletes / Michael Schiavone
Nurses on strike / Lisa Hayes
Organizing home health care workers in New York City / Immanuel Ness
Bibliography
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