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The Configuration and Causes of Strike Fatalities in U.S. Labor History
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Table 1. Total Strike Counts, 1877-1947. Year(s)
# Fatalities
1877
100
1878-1885
7
1886-1887
59
1888-1890
7
1891-1893
53
1894
61
1895-1899
68
1900-1904
93
1905-1909
91
1910-1913 110 1914
66
1915-1918
21
1919-1922 150 1923-1930
17
1931-1933
18
1934-1941 156 1942-1947
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Total
1,086
Copyright © 2003 Paul F. Lipold All Rights Reserved
The fatality data has been presented in Table 1. As the periodized count suggests, the era began
with the single most violent year ever recorded in American labor history, the year of the Great Strike of
1877 wherein an estimated one hundred individuals lost their lives. After the initial flurry of 1877,
violence appears to have abated until it re-ignited with the Haymarket bombing and other events in 1886.
Fatalities remained common to the labor movement throughout the 1890s and Progressive Era, peaking in
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Table 1. Total Strike Counts, 1877-1947.
Year(s)
# Fatalities
1877
100
1878-1885
7
1886-1887
59
1888-1890
7
1891-1893
53
1894
61
1895-1899
68
1900-1904
93
1905-1909
91
1910-1913 110
1914
66
1915-1918
21
1919-1922 150
1923-1930
17
1931-1933
18
1934-1941 156
1942-1947
9
Total
1,086
Copyright © 2003
Paul F. Lipold
All Rights Reserved
The fatality data has been presented in Table 1. As the periodized count suggests, the era began
with the single most violent year ever recorded in American labor history, the year of the Great Strike of
1877 wherein an estimated one hundred individuals lost their lives. After the initial flurry of 1877,
violence appears to have abated until it re-ignited with the Haymarket bombing and other events in 1886.
Fatalities remained common to the labor movement throughout the 1890s and Progressive Era, peaking in
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