ABSTRACT
Between January and September 1955, 553,400 British workers were involved in 1,778 strikes during which an aggregate of 3,199,000 working days were lost. Since 1932 only two complete years, 1937 (London Coronation Bus Strike) and 1944 (Porter Award Coal Strike), have higher totals of working days lost, and only slightly higher at that. Only three years have higher figures for workers involved, 1943, 1944 and 1953, and the last can be explained away by a one-day strike in the engineering industry. Five years, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946 and 1954, have had larger numbers of strikes.
