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Collective Bargaining: Strikes and Lockouts

Strikes and Lockouts - Information Online

Work Stoppages (BLS)
Start here for data collected by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Labor Chants and Song Parodies (Labor Heritaage Foundation)

Reference Books on Strikes

Labor conflict in the United States : an encyclopedia by edited by Ronald L. Filippelli.
Call Number: HD5324.L32 1990

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The encyclopedia of strikes in American history by edited by Aaron Brenner, Benjamin Day, & Immanuel Ness.
Call Number: HD5324.E39 2009

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Books on Strikes

Strikes, picketing, and inside campaigns : a legal guide for unions by by Robert M. Schwartz.
Call Number: KF3431.Z9S39 2006

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From blackjacks to briefcases : a history of commercialized strikebreaking and unionbusting in the United States by by Robert Michael Smith.
Call Number: HD5324.S64 2003
The fragile bridge : Paterson Silk Strike, 1913 by by Steve Golin.
Call Number: HD5325.T42 1913.P383 1988

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The university against itself : the NYU strike and the future of the academic workplace by Edited by Monika Krause et al.
Call Number: LB2335.845.U52N53 2008
Hard-pressed in the heartland : the Hormel strike and the future of the labor movement by by Peter Rachleff.
Call Number: HD5325.P152 1985.A877 1992

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The Strike in Film

Harlan County, U.S.A. by directed by Barbara Kopple
Chronicles the 1973 Harlan County, Kentucky coal miners' strike. Documentary.
Strike by directed by Volker Schöndorff.
Fictionalized version of the Solidarity Strike in Gdansk, Poland. Foreign language film.
Salt of the earth by directed by Herbert Biberman.
A semidocumentary of the year-long struggle by Chicano zinc miners in New Mexico striking against unsafe working conditions.
American Dream by directed by Barbara Kopple.
1991 Academy Award winning documentary about the 1985-86 workers' strike against Geo. A. Hormel & Company in Austin, Minnesota.
Newsies by directed by Kenny Ortega.
A movie musical about the July 1899 newsboys strike over the raising of distribution prices on newspapers.

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