This isn't the first time Hollywood's been on strike. Here's how past strikes turned out

This isn't the first time Hollywood's been on strike. Here's how past strikes turned out

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The common refrain is that there’s nothing Hollywood loves so much as its own history. But that’s a history that's inextricable from major labor movements. As the industry comes to a momentous halt courtesy of dual strikes by its actors and screenwriters, it’s worth looking back at the effects of past protests, walkouts and other actions. The Screen Actors Guild and the Screen Writers Guild, the forerunner to today’s Writers Guild of America, were each founded in 1933, though threads of collective action and solidarity run to the very beginnings of the motion picture industry. Accumulated successes and failures have shaped the contemporary landscape.

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