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Strikes! Labor History Encyclopedia for the Pacific Northwest

Strikes! Labor History Encyclopedia for the Pacific Northwest

History Sites, Resources, University of Washington (UW)January 21, 2022

This project assembles the most extensive online collection of materials about labor history for this, or any other, region. Here you will find detailed information and primary sources about key historical events, including the Seattle General Strike of 1919, the unemployed movements and labor crusades of the 1930s, farmworker campaigns from the 1930s to 1980s, timber worker unions, waterfront strikes, Filipino cannery worker unions, the Industrial Workers of the World, and the history-making WTO confrontation of 1999.  

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