strikes

Presents a comprehensive history of the 1912 textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and describes the struggle of the immigrant workers which included twenty-three thousand strikers from fifty-one different nations.

Tired of being forced to participate in sports and take extra lessons and tutoring to become well-rounded in anticipation of college, middle-schooler Jack Strong stages a sit-in on his couch until his parents ease up.

Gwen's hope of spending the summer playing softball and hanging out with her cousin Jess is ruined when her father and her uncle land on opposite sides of the local newspaper strike.

Migratory workers strike against the landowners in California's apple country, led by Jim Nolan.

Describes several events and individuals involved in or touched by the 1909-10 textile workers' uprising and the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire in Manhattan in 1911, presenting more than sixty primary documents such as newspaper accounts, and examining the issues faced by young working women at this time.

Describes the conditions and treatment that drove working American children to strike in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, discussing such events as the mill workers' strike in 1834; the coal strikes in 1897, 1900, and 1902; and Mother Jones's 125-mile "Children's Crusade" march in 1903.

Gwen's hope of spending the summer playing softball and hanging out with her cousin Jess is ruined when her father and her uncle land on opposite sides of the local newspaper strike.

Fourteen-year-old Chris, a poor relation of the wealthy Winchesters, must chose whether to be on the side of management or labor when his classmates' parents go on strike at the Winchester mill in response to a wage cut.