To aim a blow or thrust; to hit or impact something forcefully. Also used to describe a labour stoppage or collective refusal to work, typically in response to poor wages and working conditions. Labour strikes were popularized during the Industrial Revolution due to the spike in mechanized production and increased reliance on factory workers. In the vastly different labour environment of the twenty-first century, strike has taken on different meanings as a form of protest: rather than work stoppages or slowdowns, recent strike forms have targeted infrastructure and transportation, predatory banking, land dispossession, policing, prisons, and systemic racism (see Global Climate Strike, SDUK, Christina Battle).