strikes

Photographs and text discuss the people and events involved in the unsuccessful but influential strike by railroad workers at the Pullman Company in Chicago in 1894.

The zoo animals go on strike until the tears of a disappointed little girl make them realize that they actually like what they do.

Recounts the events surrounding the 1968 public-employee strike in Memphis that paralyzed the city and led to a complete overhaul of the city's plantation mentality that set the predominately African-American public workers apart from their upper-class white counterparts.

Discusses the labor strike against the Pullman Palace Car Company in Pullman, Illinois in 1894, and the federal government's use of force to keep the railroads operating and to crush the striking workers.

A ten-year-old bobbin girl working in a textile mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1830s, must make a difficult decision--whether or not she will participate in the first workers' strike in Lowell.