The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized political campaign on a broader national or international level).
Chronological list of strikes
Twelfth century BCE Date Strike PlaceCountryc. 1158 BCE Deir el-Medina strikes (possibly earliest recorded strike action in history) Deir el-MedinaNew Kingdom of Egypt
Fourteenth century Date Strike PlaceCountry1353 1353 Walsham Manor strike Walsham le WillowsEngland
Sixteenth century Date Strike PlaceCountry1538 1538 Cobblers' Strike WisbechEngland
Seventeenth century Date Strike PlaceCountry1619 Polish craftsmen's strike JamestownThirteen Colonies1661 Indentured Servants' Plot Virginia colonyThirteen Colonies
Eighteenth century Date Strike PlaceCountry 1766 Silver miners' strike Mineral del MonteMexico 1787 Weavers' strike Calton, GlasgowScotland
Nineteenth century
1800–1849
Date Strike Place Country 1818 Manchester Mill Worker's Strike New Hampshire United States 1824 Slater's Mill Women's Strike Rhode Island United States1825Valparaíso Fishermen's strikeValparaísoChile1827Palanqueen Strike of Calcutta (First documented strike in India)CalcuttaIndia 1828 New Hampshire Mill Women's Strike New Hampshire United States1833Four pennies riotAnzinFrance 1834 Lowell Massachusetts Mill Women's Strike Lowell, Massachusetts United States1835Textile strike Paterson, New Jersey United States18351835 Washington Navy Yard labor strikeWashington Navy Yard, Washington D.C.United States 1835 New England Mill Strike New England United States 1835 Philadelphia General Strike Philadelphia United States 1836 Lowell Massachusetts Mill Women's Strike Lowell, Massachusetts United States
1850–1899
Date Strike Place Country1853–1854Preston strike of 1853–1854Preston, LancashireUnited Kingdom1859London builders' strikeLondonUnited Kingdom1860New England Shoemakers Strike of 1860Lynn, MassachusettsUnited States1864Collar Laundry Union strikeTroy, New YorkUnited States1865Upper Peninsula miners' strikeMarquette, Michigan United States18671867 Chinese Labor StrikeSierra Nevada, California United States18701870 North Adams strikeNorth Adams, MassachusettsUnited States1872Eight hour day strikeNew York CityUnited States1872Gas Stokers' strikeLondonUnited Kingdom1872Metropolitan Police strike of 1872LondonUnited Kingdom1873Coal miners' strike of 1873northeastern Ohio, northwestern PennsylvaniaUnited States1874Tompkins Square Riot New York CityUnited States1877 Great Railroad Strike nationwideUnited States1877–1878Cigar makers' strike of 1877New York CityUnited States18811881 Atlanta washerwomen strikeAtlantaUnited States1883Camp Dump strikeOmaha, NebraskaUnited States1886Great Southwest railroad strike nationwideUnited States1886Haymarket affair Chicago, IllinoisUnited States1886Bay View massacreMilwaukee, WisconsinUnited States1887Thibodaux massacre (sugar cane workers' strike)Lafourche Parish, Louisiana United States1888Burlington railroad strike Chicago, Burlington and Quincy RailroadUnited States1888Matchgirls' strikeLondonUnited Kingdom1889London dock strikeLondon, EnglandUnited Kingdom1889Kristiania match workers' strike of 1889OsloSweden-Norway1890Southampton Dock strike Southampton, EnglandUnited Kingdom1890Maritime dispute MelbourneAustralia1891Australian shearers' strike QueenslandAustralia1891Cotton pickers' strike of 1891Lee County, ArkansasUnited States1891Coal Creek War (miners)Anderson County, Tennessee United States1892Miners' strike Broken HillAustralia1892Homestead strike (steel workers)Homestead, PennsylvaniaUnited States1892Buffalo switchmen's strikeBuffalo, New YorkUnited States1892Coeur d'Alene labor strike Coeur d'Alene, IdahoUnited States1893UK miners' strike nationwideUnited Kingdom1894Pullman Strike Pullman, ChicagoUnited States1894Great Northern Railway strikenationwideUnited States1894Bituminous coal miners' strike nationwideUnited States1895Yaroslavl Great Manufacture strikeYaroslavl, Yaroslavl GovernorateRussian Empire1896Leadville miners' strikeLeadville, ColoradoUnited States1897Lattimer massacre Lattimer, PennsylvaniaUnited States1898South Wales coal strikeWalesUnited Kingdom1899 Coeur d'Alene labor confrontationCoeur d'Alene, IdahoUnited States1899Weight StrikeYbor City, Tampa, FloridaUnited States1899Newsboys' strike New York CityUnited States1899 Russian student strike St. Petersburg UniversityRussian Empire
Twentieth century
1900s Date Strike Place Country 1900 St. Louis streetcar strike of 1900 St. Louis, MissouriUnited States 1900–1903 Penrhyn 'Streic Fawr' ('Great Strike) Bethesda, North Wales Wales, UK 1900 Anthracite coal strike Eastern Pennsylvania United States 1901U.S. Steel recognition strike of 1901 Homestead, Pennsylvania United States 1902Anthracite coal strike Illinois, Mississippi and Texas United States 1903Oxnard strike of 1903 Oxnard, California United States 1903Carbon County Strike Carbon County, Utah United States 1903–1904Colorado Labor Wars, Western Federation of Miners Colorado United States 1906Cananea strike Sonora, Mexico Mexico 1907Music Hall Strike of 1907 London United Kingdom1907Boston garment worker strikeBostonUnited States 1907Belfast Dock strike Belfast Ireland 1907Río Blanco strike Orizaba, Veracruz Mexico 19071907 San Francisco streetcar strike San Francisco, California United States 1907Revolt of the Languedoc winegrowers Languedoc, Pyrénées-Orientales France 1908Pensacola streetcar operators' strike Pensacola, Florida United States1909Georgia Railroad strikeGeorgiaUnited States1909Pressed Steel Car strike of 1909McKees Rocks, PennsylvaniaUnited States 1909New York shirtwaist strike of 1909 "Uprising of the 20,000" Manhattan, New York United States
1910s
Date Strike Place Country 1910–1911Westmoreland County coal strike of 1910–1911 Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania United States 1910–1911Tampa cigar makers' strike of 1910–11 Tampa, Florida United States 1910Clockmakers' strike New York City United States 1910–19111910 Chicago garment workers' strike Chicago United States 19111911 Liverpool general transport strike Liverpool, Merseyside United Kingdom 1911Illinois Central shopmen's strike of 1911 Illinois, Mississippi and Texas United States19111911 Grand Rapids furniture workers strikeGrand Rapids, MichiganUnited States 19121912 Lawrence textile strike, also called the "Bread and Roses" strike Lawrence, Massachusetts United States 1912Waihi miners' strike Waihi New Zealand 1911–1912Louisiana-Texas Lumber War of 1911–1912 Eastern Louisiana United States 1912Paint Creek–Cabin Creek strike of 1912 Kanawha County, West Virginia United States19121912 New York City waiters' strikeNew York CityUnited States1912–1913 1912–1913 Little Falls textile strikeLittle Falls, New YorkUnited States1912–13Seattle Fishermen halibut strike of 1912Seattle, WashingtonUnited States19121912 Brisbane General StrikeBrisbane, QueenslandAustralia19131913 El Paso smelters' strikeEl Paso, TexasUnited States 1913Dublin strike and lockout Dublin Ireland 1913Ludlow Massacre Ludlow, Colorado United States 1913Paterson silk strike Paterson, New Jersey United States19131913 Sligo Dock strikeSligoIreland1913Leith dockers' strike of 1913Leith, Edinburgh, ScotlandUnited Kingdom 19131913 Great Strike nationwide New Zealand 1913Indianapolis streetcar strike of 1913 Indianapolis, Indiana United States 1913–1914Copper Country strike of 1913–1914 Upper Michigan United States 1914–1939Bursdon teachers' strike Burston, Norfolk England1914–19151914–1915 Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills strikeAtlantaUnited States 1915–16Bayonne refinery strikes Bayonne, New Jersey United States1915–171915–1917 Wheelbarrow Mine strike Johnson County, Arkansas United States19161916 Atlanta streetcar strikeAtlantaUnited States1916–19171916–1917 northern Minnesota lumber strikeMinnesotaUnited States1917The Great StrikenationwideAustralia 1917–191917–1919 Brazil strike movement nationwideBrazil19171917 Twin Cities streetcar strikeMinneapolis–Saint PaulUnited States 1918BLE strike in New York City New York City United States19181918 Romanian typographers' strikeBucharestRomania 1918–19British police strikes in 1918 and 1919 nationwide United Kingdom1918–201918–1920 New York City rent strikesNew York CityUnited States 1919Battle of George Square Glasgow Scotland 1919US Strike wave of 1919 nationwide United States 1919La Canadiense strike Catalonia Spain1919Florida Pebble StrikeMulberry, FloridaUnited States1919Boston cigar makers' strike of 1919BostonUnited States19191919 Actors' Equity Association strikenationwideUnited States1919Los Angeles streetcar strike of 1919Los Angeles, CaliforniaUnited States19191919 Actors' Equity Association strikeNew York CityUnited States1919Boston Police StrikeBoston, MassachusettsUnited States 1919Steel strike of 1919 Homestead, Pennsylvania United States1919Coal strikenationwideUnited States
1920s Date Strike PlaceCountry 1920Battle of Matewan Matewan, West Virginia United States 19201920 Alabama coal strike Alabama United States 19201920 French railway strikes nationwide France 1920Denver streetcar strike of 1920 Denver, Colorado United States 1920Oahu sugar strike of 1920 Oahu, Hawaii Territory of Hawaii 1921Kronstadt rebellion Kronstadt Russian SFSR1921Black Friday (1921) (expected strike not called)nationwideUnited Kingdom 1921Battle of Blair Mountain Logan County, West Virginia United States1922 New England Textile StrikeNortheastUnited States1922UMW General coal strikenationwideUnited States 1922Herrin massacre Herrin, Illinois United States 1922Great Railroad Strike of 1922 nationwide United States 19221922 seamen's strike citywide Hong Kong 1923Great Strike of February 7Beijing–Hankou railwayRepublic of China19231923 San Pedro maritime strikeSan Pedro, Los Angeles, CaliforniaUnited States 19231923 Victorian police strikeMelbourne, VictoriaAustralia 1924Hanapepe massacre Kauai, Hawaii United States 1925 Ammanford anthracite strike Ammanford, Carmarthenshire Wales 1925–1926 Canton-Hong Kong strike Guangzhou and Hong Kong China and Hong Kong19261926 United Kingdom general strikeNationwideUnited Kingdom 19261926 Passaic textile strike Passaic, New Jersey United States19271927 Indiana bituminous strikenationwideUnited States 1927Columbine Mine massacre Serene, Colorado United States 19281928 New Bedford textile strike New Bedford, Massachusetts United States 1928Banana massacre nationwide Colombia 19291929 Australian timber workers' strike nationwide Australia 1929Lupeni Strike of 1929 Lupeni, Harghita Romania 19291929 New Orleans streetcar strike New Orleans, Louisiana United States 1929 Rothbury Riot North Rothbury, New South Wales Australia 1929Loray Mill strike Gastonia, North Carolina United States
1930s