The Great Strike at Nushagak Station, 1951: Institutional Gridlock

• Published in: The Journal of Economic History
• Main Author: Hughes, Jonathan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1982
• Subjects: Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous); Economics and Econometrics; History; Bering Sea
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022050700026814; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0022050700026814

In the summer of 1951 the Bering Sea fishermen's union strike against the Bristol Bay salmon packers signaled the end of old-time industrial labor relations there. The issues of the strike and its conduct offer a case study of deteriorating symbiosis in industrial relations, which is not untypical elsewhere in American industry. This paper concentrates on events in 1951 and 1952 at a remote cannery site on the Nushagak River as a partial microcosm of larger evolutionary consequences in American industry.