Americans working in industries across the country began to walk off the job in the weeks and months following WWII's end in protest of low wages and unsafe working conditions.
- The strike wave of 1945-1946, also known as the great strike wave of 1946, was a series of humongous post-war labor strikes in the United States from 1945 to 1946, ranging from many industries and public infrastructure.
- Throughout WWII, the National War Labor Board charged trade unions with maintaining labor discipline in exchange for closed membership.
- This resulted in labor leaders acquiescing to businesses and workers staging various wildcat strikes.
- The strikes were mainly the result of turbulent postwar economic modifications; with 10 million soldiers returning home and people shifting from wartime to traditional industries, inflation was 8% in 1945, 14% in 1946, and 8% in 1947.
- Many of the uprisings from 1945 to 1946 were for good wages and working hours, but one survey of 118 labor unrest in Detroit from 1944 to 1945 by Jerome F. Scott and George C. Homans found that only four were for wages, with the rest being for discipline, organizational policies, or loss of employment.
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