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By the late nineteenth century, the hungry increasingly found themselves constructed as objects of compassion. In an IRSH research article (56, 2011) Andy Croll argues that there were real limits to... [Item of the Day]
In La Paz, Bolivia 100.000 people marched against hunger on 15 September 1982. The march ended in a general strike whereupon the military junta decided to rehabilitate democracy and parliament.... [Item of the Day]
Dockers from Antwerp, Belgium, stopped work during the month of September 1907 to get one more frank pay (of five Bfr.) Strike breakers from England caused a lot of fighting in the streets and the... [Item of the Day]
On March 31, 1955 4000 employees of the Amsterdam tramways go on strike for higher wages. It's an unofficial strike. Being public servants, it was prohibited to strike. Their employer, the mayor of... [Item of the Day]
The great British 1926 general strike officially lasted ten days. It started on May 3 to protest against a planned reduction in miners' wages. The strike effectively stopped all activity. The Trade... [Item of the Day]
Protesting against the decision by the German government to accept the peace treaty of Versailles, a group of soldiers under Wolfgang Kapp took control of Berlin on March 13, 1920. The trade unions... [Item of the Day]
Two prolonged, grim labour conflicts marked 1929 in the Netherlands. The strike of agricultural labourers in northern Groningen is the best known. On 21 July, in chemical industry of Limburg, a... [Item of the Day]
In August 1980 strikes broke out in many parts of Poland. The strike at the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk is most well known. The workers won their battle quickly, and in 1981 the fight shifted to the... [Item of the Day]
The great strike in the port of Rotterdam started on 24 August and lasted for three weeks. Thirteen thousand men participated, but the official trade unions did not. The first days "show the well-... [Item of the Day]
Britain's most bitter industrial dispute of recent times started with the announcement that a Yorkshire pit at Cortonwood was to close. On 5 March 1984 miners all over Yorkshire walked out. The next... [Item of the Day]

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