Editors and contributors -- Topic finder -- Introduction to the Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History / Aaron Brenner -- Types of strikes / Aaron Brenner -- List of abbreviations -- Strikes: theory and practice -- Introduction / Aaron Brenner -- Strikes in American history / Aaron Brenner...

Strikes and American History -- Lowell Mill Girls and the Development of American Capitalism -- Slaves on Strike -- The Eight-Hour-Day Strikes -- The Anthracite Strike and the Progressive State -- The Bread and Roses Strike -- The Flint Sit-Down Strike and the New Deal -- The Oakland General...

"Through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, employers and powerful individuals deployed a variety of tactics to control ordinary people as they sought to secure power in and out of workplaces. This book suggests that the birth of law and order politics as we know it can be found...