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"The title is a reference to a shirtwaist makers’ strike in 1909-1910, where thousands of women went on strike to demand better pay and working conditions. Critics of their day, including a magistrate, charged them with rebellion against god and nature—one decried them as being “on strike against God.”

https://www.tor.com/2011/10/14/reading-joanna-russ-on-strike-against-god-1980/#:~:text=On%20Strike%20Against%20God%3A%20A,longer%20in%20print%2C%20though.)