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In 1937 there were 4,740 strikes in the United States.<ref>
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</ref> This was the greatest strike wave in [[Labor history of the United States|American labor history]]. The number of major strikes and lockouts in the U.S. fell by 97% from 381 in 1970 to 187 in 1980 to only 11 in 2010. Companies countered the threat of a strike by threatening to close or move a plant.<ref name=census>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0663.pdf|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111020114556/http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0663.pdf|url-status=dead|title=U.S. Census Bureau, ''Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2012'' (2011) p 428 table 663|archivedate=20 October 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Aaron Brenner|title=The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EHzk54IjNpEC&pg=PA234|year=2011|publisher=M.E. Sharpe|pages=234–35|display-authors=etal|isbn=9780765626455}}</ref>
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