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A 4 page contention that throughout their history strikes have had both positive and negative
benefits in the workplace and in society in general. While ultimately they bettered the collective plight of workers, that betterment sometimes came with great costs. Some even lost their lives as a result of worker strikes. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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workers to work in protest of poor working conditions, inadequate pay, or insufficient benefits; first made their advent in the U.S. in the twentieth century. The threat of labor
strikes continues to be an important bargaining tool even in contemporary times. Throughout their history strikes have had both positive and negative benefits in the workplace and in society
in general. While ultimately they bettered the collective plight of workers, that betterment sometimes came with great costs. Some even lost their lives as a result of worker
strikes. Strikes occurred in a diversity of occupational arenas. The bloody Colorado coal strike that occurred between 1913 and 1914 is of
particular interest in the duality of their impact. Mining was, and still is in fact, one of the most dangerous occupational environments. Numerous writers have written about this
strike but one of the most comprehensive accounts is found in Zinn, Frank and Kelleys "Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labors Last Century". At
the time of the 1913/1914 strike the common mine worker was easily oppressed. They were poor and lacked any real unification in terms of labor unions. These individuals
had to endure extremely long days in deplorable conditions. When the miners first tried to initiate worker solidarity to protest such conditions, however, the outcome was dire. Their
strike heralded the arrival of the National Guard. Although this arrival was first cheered by the miners, they would soon experience the notorious Ludlow Massacre in which the Guard
killed two women and eleven children in a misguide attempt to reinstill order to the region. Fortunately few strikes of the twentieth century
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