Strikes as forest fires: Chicago and Paris in the late nineteenth century
Historians have persistently likened strike waves to wildfiles, avalanches, and epidemics. These phenomena are characterized by a power-law distribution of event sizes. This kind of analysis is applied to outbreaks of class conflict in Chicago from 1881 to 1886. Events are defined as individual stri...
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University of Chicago Press
2005
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