Despite failing to break the Homestead Strike in 1892, the Pinkerton Agency demonstrated the extralegal threat paramilitary agencies created for Americans.

The women sewing machinists of the Dagenham plant received a raise after they went on strike against Ford. But was this a victory?

In the early 20th century, labor unrest and strike breaking were done not by the government, by private agencies and self-appointed vigilantes.

Americans in "The Great Resignation" and "Strikevember" are the heirs of the 1936-1937 sit-down strike by auto workers in Flint, Michigan.

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 nineteenth century.