ABSTRACT
This section examines strikes in U.S. manufacturing, mining, and agriculture from the precolonial era to the first decade of the twenty-first century. During this long history, employment in these sectors rose and fell, the nature and organization of work changed, and the legal framework of labor relations evolved, but each of the three industrial sectors remained crucial to the national economy. In each sector, workers challenged oppressive conditions, miserly wages, and draconian employers.
