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Waves of strikes rippling across the US seem big, but the total number of Americans walking off the job remains historically low

  • Written by Judith Stepan-Norris, Professor Emerita of Sociology, University of California, Irvine
imageStriking members of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union in New York City in 1958.AP Photo

More than 323,000 workers – including nurses, actors, screenwriters, hotel cleaners and restaurant servers – walked off their jobs during the first eight months of 2023. Hundreds of thousands of the employees of delivery giant UPS would...

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