10 Items Tagged

Strikes

Calumet, Michigan

Italian Hall Memorial

Only the original archway remains from the building where a false cry of "fire" started a panic that claimed more than 70 lives on Christmas Eve in 1913.

Bissau, Guinea-Bissau

Hand of Timba

This monument memorializes a violent massacre where colonial police killed 50 striking dockworkers.

Featherstone, England

Memorial to the Featherstone Massacre

A distinctive sculpture honors those killed and injured during a mineworkers strike in 1893.

Preston, England

Preston Martyrs Memorial

A harrowing sculpture commemorates the four people shot down during the workers strike of 1842.

The Forgotten Filipino American Activist Behind the Delano Grape Strike

A children's book about Larry Itliong aims to rectify history.

Paula Mejia May 17, 2018

The Forgotten History of New York’s Bagel Famines

Remembering Local 338 and the world's toughest bagel bakers.

Natasha Frost February 9, 2018

Kreenholm Manufacturing Company

An abandoned textile factory on the "island of crows" was home to Estonia's first workers' strike.

A Strike Against Dolphins in Sicily

They're eating all of the squid.

Cara Giaimo March 22, 2017

The Statue of Liberty Went on Strike Last Night

Happy International Women's Day!

Cara Giaimo March 8, 2017

The Story Behind the Most Bizarre Strike Photo Ever Taken

An English newspaper has uncovered a photo from a little-known—and highly unusual—strike action.

Jessie Guy-Ryan June 26, 2016