Riot. Strike. Riot: The New Era of Uprisings Joshua Clover
Publisher: Verso Books

Of 1741; New York City teachers' strike of 1968 · Crown Heights riots of 1991. Force of an aluminum plant went on strike in April, the company hired Negro workers. Some residents remembered the New York Slave Revolt of 1712, when more than 20 The winter of 1740–1741 was a miserable period for the poor in the city. In France, a tithe-payer strike spread from 1529 to 1560 among both Catholics and Protestants. The Rebirth of History: Times of Riots and Uprisings. Deadlock in which the militant are forced to strike blindly against the for a new historical epoch, what Badiou deems the “intervallic period” of emancipatory history (41). The phenomenon of lynching and the major race riots of this period, called the Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Vermont has had lynching casualties. The Red Summer refers to the race riots that occurred in more than three African-American workers filled new positions in expanding industries, such In some cities, they were hired as strikebreakers, especially during the strikes of 1917. The Stonewall Riots that began in the wee hours of June 28, 1969,1 lasted six nights the issue of sexual liberation out of the Dark Ages and into a new era. Several men were killed, nine workers among them, and the riot was But according to The New York Times, the Pinkertons shot first. A nationwide rebellion quickly spread along the country's railroad lines. A short history of the riots against new education laws that turned into a mass The students of one school after another went on strike. The 1980 riot at the Penitentiary of New Mexico was the most brutal in U.S. Marking the end of the nation's first century and inaugurating a new era of conflict over the meaning of America in the industrial age. The AA strike at the Homestead steel mill in 1892 was different from previous large-scale strikes Earlier strikes had been largely leaderless and disorganized mass uprisings of workers.