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          1. Proud to share this Wikipedia article on Sit-down strikes, which I rewrote and expanded as part of @WikiEducation's Scholars & Scientists program. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitdown_strike
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          I've long been fascinated by the sit-down strike wave that created the power of the United Auto Workers, industrial unions in the USA, and through them made industrial workers part of the middle class.
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        In terms of tactics, sit-down strikes defy simple categorization. As I've written before: "Were the sit-downs a triumph of “violent” or “nonviolent” tactics? Answer: Both." woborders.blog/2012/02/13/debating-tactics-remember-to-ask-what-works/
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      What Wikipedia writing forces you to do is to focus on getting the facts on the page, and on finding expert sources that have told the story in formal settings. Happily, there were many of these on sit-down strikes.
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    A good encyclopedia article summarizes knowledge in an easily digestible form. This meant chasing down sources referred to by experts and distilling their numbers… (with the help of Excel's import-from-picture function)
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      … into an easy-to-understand graphic.
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        Workers carried out 583 sit-down strikes, occupying their factories and workshops and dime stores, between 1936 when Akron rubber workers scaled up the practice and February 1939 when the US Supreme Court ruled that firing sit-down strikers was definitively legal.
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          On-the-ground reporting and theorizing by Louis Adamic made this experience especially vivid, and I was only able to access Adamic's _My America_ due to @internetarchive's amazing online book library.
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            Combining these sources, Sitdown strike on Wikipedia is now a 2800-word article that covers the United States and France in detail and lays out the main tactical and strategic benefits of sitdown strikes as well as their eventual criminalization and occasional rebirth in the USA
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              Through the Scholars & Scientists program, Wiki Education works to connect Wikipedia with subject-matter experts who can improve core articles and create new ones. wikiedu.org/blog/category/wikipedia-professional-development/testimonials-wiki-scholars/-
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                Upcoming Scholars and Scientists courses offered by Wiki Education are listed here: wikiedu.org/learn/
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