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Behind the Bastards

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The General Strike in Seattle

The Seattle general strike incorporated many of these issues that we would say is about gender and reproductive needs of the population they didn't just shut down the workplace they actually took over the city. The 1877 strike resulted in what I show in a lot of detail in my first book when workers shot back how the state and capital reorganized themselves to be able to respond quicker to self-organized strikes.

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