List of strikes


The following is a list of specific strikes and general strikes.

Chronological list of strikes

Twelfth century BCE

Fourteenth century

Sixteenth century

Seventeenth century

Eighteenth century

Nineteenth century

1800–1849

DateStrikePlaceCountry
1818Manchester Mill Worker's StrikeNew HampshireUnited States
1824Slater's Mill Women's StrikeRhode IslandUnited States
1828New Hampshire Mill Women's StrikeNew HampshireUnited States
1833Four pennies riotAnzinFrance
1834Lowell Massachusetts Mill Women's StrikeLowell, MassachusettsUnited States
1835Textile strikePaterson, New JerseyUnited States
18351835 Washington Navy Yard labor strikeWashington Navy Yard, Washington D.C.United States
1835New England Mill StrikeNew EnglandUnited States
1835Philadelphia General StrikePhiladelphiaUnited States
1836Lowell Massachusetts Mill Women's StrikeLowell, MassachusettsUnited States

1850–1899

DateStrikePlaceCountry
1853–1854Preston strike of 1853–1854Preston, LancashireUnited Kingdom
1859London builders' strikeLondonUnited Kingdom
1860New England Shoemakers Strike of 1860Lynn, MassachusettsUnited States
1864Collar Laundry Union strikeTroy, New YorkUnited States
1865Upper Peninsula miners' strikeMarquette, MichiganUnited States
18671867 Chinese Labor StrikeSierra Nevada, CaliforniaUnited States
1870North Adams strikeNorth Adams, MassachusettsUnited States
1872Eight hour day strikeNew York CityUnited States
1872Gas Stokers' strikeLondonUnited Kingdom
1872Metropolitan Police strike of 1872LondonUnited Kingdom
1873Coal miners' strike of 1873northeastern Ohio, northwestern PennsylvaniaUnited States
1874Tompkins Square RiotNew York CityUnited States
1877Great Railroad StrikenationwideUnited States
1877–1878Cigar makers' strike of 1877New York CityUnited States
18811881 Atlanta washerwomen strikeAtlantaUnited States
1883Camp Dump strikeOmaha, NebraskaUnited States
1886Great Southwest railroad strikenationwideUnited States
1886Haymarket affairChicago, IllinoisUnited States
1886Bay View massacreMilwaukee, WisconsinUnited States
1887Thibodaux massacre Lafourche Parish, LouisianaUnited States
1888Burlington railroad strikeChicago, Burlington and Quincy RailroadUnited States
1888Matchgirls' strikeLondonUnited Kingdom
1889London dock strikeLondon, EnglandUnited Kingdom
1889Kristiania match workers' strike of 1889OsloSweden-Norway
1890Southampton Dock strikeSouthampton, EnglandUnited Kingdom
1890Maritime disputeMelbourneAustralia
1891Australian shearers' strikeQueenslandAustralia
1891Cotton pickers' strike of 1891Lee County, ArkansasUnited States
1891Coal Creek War Anderson County, TennesseeUnited States
1892Miners' strikeBroken HillAustralia
1892Homestead strike Homestead, PennsylvaniaUnited States
1892Buffalo switchmen's strikeBuffalo, New YorkUnited States
1892Coeur d'Alene labor strikeCoeur d'Alene, IdahoUnited States
1893UK miners' strikenationwideUnited Kingdom
1894Pullman StrikePullman, ChicagoUnited States
1894Great Northern Railway strikenationwideUnited States
1894Bituminous coal miners' strikenationwideUnited States
1895Yaroslavl Great Manufacture strikeYaroslavl, Yaroslavl GovernorateRussian Empire
1896Leadville miners' strikeLeadville, ColoradoUnited States
1897Lattimer massacreLattimer, PennsylvaniaUnited States
1898South Wales coal strikeWalesUnited Kingdom
1899Coeur d'Alene labor confrontationCoeur d'Alene, IdahoUnited States
1899Weight StrikeYbor City, Tampa, FloridaUnited States
1899Newsboys' strikeNew York CityUnited States
1899Russian student strikeSt. Petersburg UniversityRussian Empire

Twentieth century

1900s

1910s

DateStrikePlaceCountry
1910–1911Westmoreland County coal strike of 1910–1911Westmoreland County, PennsylvaniaUnited States
1910–1911Tampa cigar makers' strike of 1910–11Tampa, FloridaUnited States
1910Clockmakers' strikeNew York CityUnited States
1910–19111910 Chicago garment workers' strikeChicagoUnited States
19111911 Liverpool general transport strikeLiverpool, MerseysideUnited Kingdom
1911Illinois Central shopmen's strike of 1911Illinois, Mississippi and TexasUnited States
19111911 Grand Rapids furniture workers strikeGrand Rapids, MichiganUnited States
19121912 Lawrence textile strike, also called the "Bread and Roses" strikeLawrence, MassachusettsUnited States
1912Waihi miners' strikeWaihiNew Zealand
1911–1912Louisiana-Texas Lumber War of 1911–1912Eastern LouisianaUnited States
1912Paint Creek–Cabin Creek strike of 1912Kanawha County, West VirginiaUnited States
19121912 New York City waiters' strikeNew York CityUnited States
1912–19131912–1913 Little Falls textile strikeLittle Falls, New YorkUnited States
1912–13Seattle Fishermen halibut strike of 1912Seattle, WashingtonUnited States
19121912 Brisbane General StrikeBrisbane, QueenslandAustralia
19131913 El Paso smelters' strikeEl Paso, TexasUnited States
1913Dublin strike and lockoutDublinIreland
1913Ludlow MassacreLudlow, ColoradoUnited States
1913Paterson silk strikePaterson, New JerseyUnited States
19131913 Sligo Dock strikeSligoIreland
1913Leith dockers' strike of 1913Leith, Edinburgh, ScotlandUnited Kingdom
19131913 Great StrikenationwideNew Zealand
1913Indianapolis streetcar strike of 1913Indianapolis, IndianaUnited States
1913–1914Copper Country strike of 1913–1914Upper MichiganUnited States
1914–1939Bursdon teachers' strikeBurston, NorfolkEngland
1914–19151914–1915 Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills strikeAtlantaUnited States
1915–16Bayonne refinery strikesBayonne, New JerseyUnited States
1915–171915–1917 Wheelbarrow Mine strikeJohnson County, ArkansasUnited States
19161916 Atlanta streetcar strikeAtlantaUnited States
1916–19171916–1917 northern Minnesota lumber strikeMinnesotaUnited States
1917The Great StrikenationwideAustralia
1917–191917–1919 Brazil strike movementnationwideBrazil
19171917 Twin Cities streetcar strikeMinneapolis–Saint PaulUnited States
1918BLE strike in New York CityNew York CityUnited States
1918–19British police strikes in 1918 and 1919nationwideUnited Kingdom
1918–201918–1920 New York City rent strikesNew York CityUnited States
1919Battle of George SquareGlasgowScotland
1919US Strike wave of 1919nationwideUnited States
1919La Canadiense strikeCataloniaSpain
1919Florida Pebble StrikeMulberry, FloridaUnited States
1919Boston cigar makers' strike of 1919BostonUnited States
19191919 Actors' Equity Association strikenationwideUnited States
1919Los Angeles streetcar strike of 1919Los Angeles, CaliforniaUnited States
19191919 Actors' Equity Association strikeNew York CityUnited States
1919Boston Police StrikeBoston, MassachusettsUnited States
1919Steel strike of 1919Homestead, PennsylvaniaUnited States
1919Coal strikenationwideUnited States