Ep 25: Three Strikes And Out Labour Days: a labour movement podcast

In a break from pandemic-related content, our hosts each pick a little-known, unusual, or otherwise distinctive strike from history, and briefly tell its story.

Daniel spoke about the artisan tomb builders’ strike from ancient Egypt in 1157 BCE; Ellie chose the strike of Haudenosaunee (“Iroquois”) women in the 1600s, which was a strike of domestic and reproductive labour; and Edd talked about the “Skylab controversy”, a strike of three Nasa astronauts in 1973, the first strike in space.

The main sources they used for research are linked below.

Solidarity, stay safe, and take care.

References:

Daniel:

https://libcom.org/history/records-of-the-strike-in-egypt-under-ramses-iii

https://dianabuja.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/food-strikes-in-ancient-egypt-the-turin-strike-papyrus-etc/

http://edithorial.blogspot.com/2018/02/classics-and-strike-action-ancient-and.html?m=1

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/11/steep-commute-gave-ancient-egyptian-workers-osteoarthritis

https://www.ancient.eu/article/1089/the-first-labor-strike-in-history/

Ellie:

http://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2008/05/iroquois-women.html

https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/iroquois-women-gain-power-veto-wars-1600s

https://www.haudenosauneeconfederacy.com/clan-system/

Edd:

https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-that-day-three-nasa-astronauts-20151228-column.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab_controversy