Uniting for better wages and working conditions, a remarkably diverse coalition of laborers faced off against agribusiness.

Anti-rent rebellions in New York State helped to shatter the two-party political system in the nineteenth century.

A wave of rent strikes in the 1960s showed that poor residents of New York City had deep concerns about housing. The media, however, focused on big rats.

The idea of a general strike is to shut down all but essential services in a city, region, or nation. America has had its share. A Briton invented the idea.

The origin of coal miners' unions during the late 19th century.