# General Strike

> the governed discovering that institutions cannot function without their participation

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

## Concrete anchor

General 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

Coordinated withdrawal of labor across sectors interrupts ordinary social reproduction and demonstrates dependency on mass cooperation.

## Who gains and who loses power

The mechanism can increase the capacity of actors able to use General 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.** the governed discovering that institutions cannot function without their participation

## Gift

System-wide leverage and solidarity.

## Wound / Shadow

Severe costs fall unevenly, and participation may be difficult to sustain.

## Conditions

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

## Strategic meaning

Use General 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 General Strike. Read for the capacity seeking expression, the cost displaced from view, and the relationship that changes if the frame moves.

**Question:** Which ordinary cooperation is holding the order together?

## Game function

**resource.** Reveal one hidden dependency connected to General Strike; another player names a countermove. Initiative 3.

## Relationships

- **institutionalizes — Strike:** Strike institutionalizes General Strike by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **counteracts — Wildcat Strike:** General Strike counteracts Wildcat Strike by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **depends on — Guy Fawkes Mask:** General Strike depends on Guy Fawkes Mask by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **amplifies — Care Practice:** Care Practice amplifies General Strike by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_

## Countermaps and polarity prompts

- Read General Strike from the viewpoint of the actor who bears its cost.
- Reverse cause and symptom: what if General 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 General 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`.
