ABSTRACT
This chapter describes author's view on the mass strikes of Rebellion which was often described as spreading by contagion. Class conflict was the result of a system that differentiated workers and employers. The domination of workers by employers was embodied in each workplace, but it was also a feature of society as a whole. So he argued that, while the microcosmic cell units of mass strikes lay in workplaces and their informal work groups, mass strikes were also part of a macrocosmic national and even international system. Mass strikes were related to the periodic crises, political, or military that have been features of industrial capitalism since its beginnings. The Vietnam War era labor upheavals accompanied the global crisis of stagflation that marked the end of the relatively steady economic growth after World War II. The Great Upheaval was followed by the organization of militias and the building of armories for the suppression of domestic unrest.
