1917-1922
Women?and?Communal?Strikes?in?the?Crisis?of?1917???1922?? An?interesting?fact?concerning?the?protests?by?working?class?in?the?period?during?and?succeeding?WWI?was? not?initial?demands?for?revolutionary?change?or?worker?s?rights,?but?instead?forcing?government?to?provide? basic?life?necessities?of?food?and?shelter?during?times?of?rationing.?Though?there?were?differences?in? geography?and?outcomes,?the?goal?was?the?same?in?demanding?survival?over?social?and?economic?change.? The?politicization?of?these?movements?did?not?occur?until?their?male?counterparts,?who?did?hold?memberships? in?unions?and?radical?political?groups,?sympathized?with?their?female?equivalents?and?participated?in?these?