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American strikes are not like European strikes: they are usually bigger and longer. They have been a lot bloodier as well, because, to nobody's surprise, there are often lots of guns around. People get killed when Americans goes on strike. There was a “classic” period of strikes in America, roughly from the 1870s to the 1930s, when this was true in excelsis. Take for example the strike of miners in the Trinidad District of Colorado, 1912‐1914. This, and the Ludlow Massacre which accompanied it, resulted in over 20 deaths, most of them strikers and their families.
Conversely, the violence...
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