As Wednesday’s Women’s Strike continues to makes headlines, there’s a strange idea floating around the Internet: that striking is for the privileged, the province of well-off women with the luxury of being able to claim a vacation day or hire other people to take care of their children and loved ones.

In a country with a union density just south of 11 percent, there are a number of legitimate questions to be raised about the feasibility of a strike in 2017. Workers’ bargaining power stands at historic lows, and the institutions that once supported striking workers (namely, unions) have been eroded by a mix of neoliberal assault and market forces. Women, in particular — inordinately represented in low-wage service work — enjoy perilously few protections on the job, and are all too likely to face retaliation from their bosses for not showing up. Thanks to these and other structural factors, what happened yesterday was not a truly mass strike. That’s why organizers outlined a number of ways to plug into the day’s events, inside and outside the workplace.

Still, what’s troubling about an analysis that claims striking-as-privilege is its near-total disconnection from American labor history.