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In 1926, thousands of British workers went on strike to show solidarity with miners threatened with lower wages and longer hours. The General Strike, which lasted for nine days and was one of the largest work stoppages in British history, was a massive failure. Joe Corrie, a miner from the Scottish region of Fife, channeled his disappointment at the outcome of the strike into his first full-length play, In Time O'Strife. The play dramatized the hardship of the strike through the lens of a working-class Scottish family. His work was one of the first naturalist plays to dramatize workers' lives, and it was a remarkable success. The Workers' Theatre Movement, a loose confederacy of amateur, com...
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