I'm going to get to it on the 'stack eventually but the mass sit down strikes in France after the Popular Front victory are really interesting, the sitdown strike was a new tactic and the owners feared it especially because it signaled a de facto expropriation
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The rank and file of the unions spontaneously struck, catching their leadership, the Socialists, and Communists off guard. Nobody could control the strikers and it took an enormous amount of wrangling to end them even after the new labor accords were signed
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I can't imagine a work context today that would have a similar effect on society. Maybe if all the Amazon warehouses in the country had a sit down strike?
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In America too -- the big unionization movement of 1930s was pushed by sit down strikes.
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