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===Nineteenth century=== ====1800β1849==== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Date ! Strike ! Place ! Country |- | 1818 | Manchester Mill Worker's Strike | New Hampshire | United States <!-- The workers were on strike to protest a 25% pay cut --> |- | 1824 | Slater's Mill Women's Strike | Rhode Island | United States <!-- The women were on strike to protest a 25% pay cut --> |- | 1828 | New Hampshire Mill Women's Strike | New Hampshire | United States <!-- The women were on strike new end rules that fined them for being late, forbade talking on the job, and required church attendance. They were forced to return with no changes, their leaders fired and black listed. --> |- |1833 |[[Anzin miners' strike|Four pennies riot]] |[[Anzin]] |France |- | 1834 | Lowell Massachusetts Mill Women's Strike | Lowell, Massachusetts | United States <!-- The women went on strike because their wages were cut. The threat of replacing them forced them back and they were punished with further wage cuts, their leaders fired. --> |- |1835 |[[1835 Paterson textile strike|Textile strike]]<!-- affiliation unclear, see [[Talk:1835 Paterson textile strike#Union affiliation?]] --> |[[Paterson, New Jersey]] |[[United States]] |- |1835 |[[1835 Washington Navy Yard labor strike]] |[[Washington Navy Yard]], [[Washington, D.C.|Washington D.C.]] |[[United States Navy|United States]] |- | 1835 | New England Mill Strike | New England | United States <!-- 20 different factories went on strike to reduce the work day from {{frac|13|1|2}} hours to 11, the end of fines for being late, and to get cash instead of company scrip for pay. The long duration of the strike and the fear of losing their jobs caused some to go back to work, but in the end they won a reduction in the work day to 12 hours with the same pay and only 9 hours on Saturday instead of the 13 1/2 for all 6 days. --> |- | 1835 | [[1835 Philadelphia general strike|Philadelphia General Strike]] | Philadelphia | United States <!-- 50 different unions joined forces for a city-wide strike demanding a 10-hour day for the same pay. After a short while, they won their demand, and this victory launched a nation-wide movement for the 10-hour day. By 1860, the work day was down on average to just above 10 hours. --> |- | 1836 | Lowell Massachusetts Mill Women's Strike | Lowell, Massachusetts | United States <!-- 1500 women went on strike against a raise in their boarding house rent. They marched for a month until they ran out of money and went back to work with no relief, their leaders fired. --> |} ====1850β1899==== [[File:Frick to Carnegie letter about the arming of the Pinkertons.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.6|Frick's letter describing the plans and munitions that will be on the barges when the Pinkerton guards and County Sheriffs arrive to confront the strikers in the 1892 Homestead]] {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Date ! Strike ! Place ! Country |- |1853β1854 |[[Preston strike of 1853β1854]] |[[Preston, Lancashire]] |[[United Kingdom]] |- |1859 |[[London builders' strike (1859)|London builders' strike]] |[[London]] |[[United Kingdom]] |- |1860 |[[New England Shoemakers Strike of 1860]] |[[Lynn, Massachusetts]] |[[United States]] |- |1864 |[[Collar Laundry Union|Collar Laundry Union strike]]<ref>{{cite book |last= Loomis |first=Erik |date=2020 |title=A History of America in Ten Strikes|page=233 |publisher=[[The New Press]] |isbn=978-1620976272}}</ref> |[[Troy, New York]] |[[United States]] |- |- |1865 |[[Upper Peninsula miners' strike of 1865|Upper Peninsula miners' strike]] |[[Marquette, Michigan]] |[[United States]] |- |1867 |[[Chinese Labor Strike of 1867]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ryan|first=Patrick Spaulding|date=2022|title=Saving Face Without Words: A Confucian Perspective on The Strike of 1867|url=https://ssrn.com/abstract=4067005}}</ref> |[[Sierra Nevada, California]] |[[United States]] |- |1870 |[[North Adams strike]] |[[North Adams, Massachusetts]] |[[United States]] |- |1872 |[[Gas Stokers' strike]] |[[London]] |[[United Kingdom]] |- |1872 |[[Metropolitan Police strike of 1872]] |London |[[United Kingdom]] |- |1873 |[[Coal miners' strike of 1873]] |northeastern Ohio, northwestern Pennsylvania |[[United States]] |- |1874 |[[Tompkins Square Riot (1874)|Tompkins Square Riot]] |[[New York City]] |[[United States]] |- |1877 |[[Great Railroad Strike]] |nationwide |[[United States]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://libcom.org/history/articles/us-rail-strikes-1877|title=The great railroad strike, 1877 β Howard Zinn|work=libcom.org}}</ref> |- |1877β1878 |[[Cigar makers' strike of 1877]] |[[New York City]] |[[United States]] |- |1881 |[[1881 Atlanta washerwomen strike]] |[[Atlanta]] |[[United States]] |- |1883 |[[Camp Dump strike]] |[[Omaha, Nebraska|Omaha]], [[Nebraska]] |[[United States]] |- |1886 |[[Great Southwest railroad strike of 1886|Great Southwest railroad strike]] |nationwide |[[United States]] |- |1886 |[[Haymarket affair]] |[[Chicago, Illinois]] |[[United States]] |- |1886 |[[Bay View massacre]] |[[Milwaukee, Wisconsin]] |[[United States]] |- |1887 |[[Thibodaux massacre]] (sugar cane workers' strike) |[[Lafourche Parish, Louisiana]] |[[United States]] |- |1888 |[[Burlington Railroad Strike of 1888|Burlington railroad strike]] |[[Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad]] |[[United States]] |- |1888 |[[Matchgirls' strike]] |[[London]] |[[United Kingdom]] |- |1889 |[[London dock strike of 1889|London dock strike]] |[[London, England]] |[[United Kingdom]] |- |1889 |[[Kristiania match workers' strike of 1889]] |[[Oslo]] |[[Sweden-Norway]] |- |1890 |[[Southampton Dock strike of 1890|Southampton Dock strike]] |[[Southampton, England]] |[[United Kingdom]] |- |1890 |[[1890 Australian maritime dispute|Maritime dispute]] |[[Melbourne]] |[[Australia]] |- |1891 |[[1891 Australian shearers' strike|Australian shearers' strike]] |[[Queensland]] |[[Australia]] |- |1891 |[[Cotton pickers' strike of 1891]] |[[Lee County, Arkansas]] |[[United States]] |- |1891 |[[Coal Creek War]] (miners) | [[Anderson County, Tennessee]] |[[United States]] |- |1892 |[[1892 Broken Hill miners' strike|Miners' strike]] |[[Broken Hill]] |[[Australia]] |- |1892 |[[Homestead strike]] (steel workers) |[[Homestead, Pennsylvania]] |[[United States]] |- |1892 |[[Buffalo switchmen's strike]] |[[Buffalo, New York]] |[[United States]] |- |1892 |[[Coeur d'Alene, Idaho labor strike of 1892|Coeur d'Alene labor strike]] |[[Coeur d'Alene, Idaho]] |[[United States]] |- |1893 |[[UK miners' strike (1893)|UK miners' strike]] | nationwide |[[United Kingdom]] |- |1894 |[[Pullman Strike]] |[[Pullman, Chicago]] |[[United States]] |- |1894 |[[American Railway Union|Great Northern Railway strike]] |nationwide |[[United States]] |- |1894 |[[Bituminous coal miners' strike of 1894|Bituminous coal miners' strike]] | nationwide |[[United States]] |- |1895 |[[1895 Yaroslavl Great Manufacture strike|Yaroslavl Great Manufacture strike]] |[[Yaroslavl]], [[Yaroslavl Governorate]] |[[Russian Empire]] |- |1896 |[[Leadville miners' strike]] |[[Leadville, Colorado]] |[[United States]] |- |1897 |[[Lattimer massacre]] |[[Lattimer, Pennsylvania]] |[[United States]] |- |1898 |[[Welsh coal strike of 1898|South Wales coal strike]] |[[Wales]] |[[United Kingdom]] |- |1899 | [[Coeur d'Alene, Idaho labor confrontation of 1899|Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation]] |[[Coeur d'Alene, Idaho]] |[[United States]] |- |1899 |[[Weight Strike]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=Koepnick|first=Brian|date=1996|title=Tampa's Historic Cigar Factories: Making a Case for Preservation|url=https://getd.libs.uga.edu/pdfs/koepnick_brian_d_200508_mhp.pdf}}</ref> |[[Ybor City]], [[Tampa, Florida]] |United States |- |1899 |[[Newsboys' strike of 1899|Newsboys' strike]] |[[New York City]] |[[United States]] |- |1899 |[[1899 Russian student strike|Russian student strike]] |[[Saint Petersburg State University|St. Petersburg University]] |[[Russian Empire]] |}
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