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Waves of strikes rippling across the US seem big, but the total number of Americans walking off the job remains historically low

By Judith Stepan-Norris, Professor Emerita of Sociology, University of California, Irvine
Jasmine Kerrissey, Associate Professor of Sociology; Director of the Labor Center, UMass Amherst

Many of the reasons for strikes now – low compensation, technological change, job insecurity and safety concerns – mirror the motives that workers had for walking off the job in decades past.

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