Individual workers’ decisions to strike are backed by their whole families and populations

Evidence

This is what happens in Bolivia in the great miners’ strikes; it happens in Argentina in the general strikes; it happened in the great struggles of the North American proletariat, as reflected, for example, in the film The Salt of the Earth. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 15

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Learned family authority patterns shape how people respond to all authority; Family allowances were promoted as making male workers more reliable and strike-resistant. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 189

Broader Connections