United States strike wave of 1945–1946
Mass labor unrest across the United States following the Second World War / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The US strike wave of 1945–1946 or great strike wave of 1946[1] were a series of massive post-war labor strikes after World War II from 1945 to 1946 in the United States spanning numerous industries and public utilities. In the year after V-J Day, more than five million American workers were involved in strikes, which lasted on average four times longer than those during the war.[2] They were the largest strikes in American labor history.[3][4] Other strikes occurred across the world including in Europe and colonial Africa.[5][6]