Event · Employment
1894 textile industry shutdown
A textile strike involving about ten thousand workers lasted more than three weeks.
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... A massive shutdown — which spread throughout
the entire textile industry in 1894, involving mainly
non-Jews — came about after the Czarist regime
demanded inspections and productivity quotas, issuing
each worker a booklet to jot down his quota for the
day. In protest, all of the silk workers left the factories. ...Connected nodes