# Social Strike

> Social Strike is mapped as the withheld hand: it reveals that production and services depend on organized human cooperation.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:political-change:labor-class:social-strike` |
| Family | Labor & Class Power |
| Domain | Political Economy |
| Kind | movement |
| Archetypal function | The Withheld Hand |
| Epistemic status | synthesis; supported |

## Concrete anchor

Social Strike belongs to the **Labor & Class Power** family. It is treated as a specific political object, role, institution, tactic, event, ideology, or mechanism before any symbolic transfer is made.

## What it does

Social Strike reveals that production and services depend on organized human cooperation, changing who can act, what becomes visible, and which costs are distributed to others.

## Who gains and who loses power

The mechanism can increase the capacity of actors able to use Social Strike, while shifting cost, delay, risk, exclusion, or dependence toward actors with less authority, information, organization, money, or safe access. The distribution is conditional, not an essence of the node.

## Archetypal function

**The Withheld Hand.** Social Strike is mapped as the withheld hand: it reveals that production and services depend on organized human cooperation.

## Gift

creates bargaining power, solidarity, and material redistribution; through Social Strike, that capacity becomes available for deliberate use.

## Wound / Shadow

protects insiders, hardens bureaucracy, or discounts unpaid and informal labor; Social Strike can then reproduce the very arrangement it claims to change.

## Conditions

- scale and jurisdiction are explicit
- affected people and absent stakeholders are named
- time horizon and countermoves are considered

## Strategic meaning

Use Social Strike to identify the operative target, resource, dependency, decision forum, and likely countermove. Ask what would make the mechanism stronger, weaker, more legitimate, or less necessary.

## Divinatory meaning

The Withheld Hand enters through Social Strike. Read for the capacity seeking expression, the cost displaced from view, and the relationship that changes if the frame moves.

**Question:** What changes when Social Strike becomes the unit of analysis rather than background?

## Game function

**leverage.** Reveal one hidden dependency connected to Social Strike; another player names a countermove. Initiative 1.

## Relationships

- **depends on — Debt Strike:** Debt Strike depends on Social Strike by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **counteracts — Lone-Actor Violence:** Lone-Actor Violence counteracts Social Strike by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **amplifies — Great Replacement Theory:** Social Strike amplifies Great Replacement Theory by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_

## Countermaps and polarity prompts

- Read Social Strike from the viewpoint of the actor who bears its cost.
- Reverse cause and symptom: what if Social Strike is an effect of the system it appears to drive?
- Change the clock: what looks different over a day, an election cycle, a generation, and a century?
- Ask when the Gift becomes the Wound through scale, secrecy, intensity, latency, or unequal reciprocity.

## Epistemic and Sentinel note

Claim layers: synthesis, interpretive, symbolic_divinatory. Scope, jurisdiction, period, and source perspective may change the claim.
No node-specific Sentinel factors were recorded; ordinary source, audience, and context checks still apply.

## Visual direction

A text-free enamel expression of Social Strike: one dominant mechanism, one counterforce, raised warm-metal linework, midnight field, restrained civic red, teal, ivory, and amber. No party logo, national flag, sacred symbol, or recognizable person.

## Research / provenance

- [National Labor Relations Act](https://www.nlrb.gov/guidance/key-reference-materials/national-labor-relations-act) — National Labor Relations Board, 1935. U.S. collective-bargaining and protected concerted-activity framework.
- [Freedom of Association](https://www.ilo.org/topics-and-sectors/freedom-association-and-right-collective-bargaining) — International Labour Organization, ongoing. International labor principles and collective bargaining.
- [198 Methods of Nonviolent Action](https://www.aeinstein.org/nonviolentaction/198-methods-of-nonviolent-action/) — Albert Einstein Institution, 1973. Tactic taxonomy; inclusion does not imply effectiveness or ethical endorsement in every context.

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Engine Output version 1.0.0; generated 2026-08-24T00:00:00Z. Sentinel annotations are stored separately in `sentinel/handoffs.json`.
