Ralph Chaplin, editor of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) newspaper Solidarity and later, of the Industrial Worker, identified four levels of general strike, A General Strike in a community.
世界产业工人（IWW）的报纸《Solidarity（英语：Solidarity (U.S. newspaper)）》（团结）及之后的《Industrial Worker（英语：Industrial Worker）》（产业工人）编辑，Ralph Chaplin（英语：Ralph Chaplin），定义了总罢工的四个等级： 一个社区范围内的总罢工。