Relative deprivation and power theories are investigated as competing explanations of industrial strike activity. Data for 26 years from the coal-mining industries of Great Britain and the United States are used in a modified quasiexperimental design using switched replications. The power hypothesis was supported and limitations of the study are discussed.
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