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GCSE History · key term
A collective refusal to work, usually intended to put pressure on an employer to meet workers’ demands.
Used by AQA, Edexcel and OCR
Paper 2
A coordinated refusal to work, intended to put pressure on an employer to meet workers’ demands.
Revise: Workers MovementsA strike put pressure on an employer by interrupting production and profits, but it also meant workers lost their wages.
Paper 1, Paper 3
An organised refusal by workers to work, usually to press for changes in pay or working conditions.
Revise: Case Studies: Bristol and LeicesterIn May 1974, approximately 500 South Asian workers, many of them women, went on strike.
An organised refusal to work, usually intended to put pressure on employers or the government.
Paper 1, Paper 2
Revise: Black Consciousness and Labour ResistanceThe university’s Wages Commission also investigated workers’ conditions. However, these activities must not be confused with having organised the strike wave that followed.
A collective refusal to work, used to put pressure on an employer.
Paper 1
A collective refusal to work intended to put pressure on an employer or the government.
Revise: Militant labourBetween 1910 and 1914, Britain experienced a wave of strikes known as the Great Unrest. Miners, railway workers, dockers and other workers challenged employers and placed the Liberal government under pressure. The scale of industrial conflict casts doubt on the idea that the years before the First World War were a ‘golden age’ of general prosperity and harmony.
Credit the match workers with initiating their strike. Annie Besant publicised their conditions and supported their campaign.
Use named local evidence: the Bristol Bus Boycott in 1963 and the Imperial Typewriters strike in 1974 show different experiences of challenging discrimination.
Explain the link between events: strikes disrupted the capital, mutiny removed the Tsar’s means of restoring order, and the generals’ withdrawal of support made abdication unavoidable.
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