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strike·break·er

(strīk′brā′kər)
n.
One who works or provides an employer with workers during a strike.
strike′break′ing n.
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strike•break•ing

(ˈstraɪkˌbreɪ kɪŋ)

n.
action directed at breaking up a strike of workers.
[1915–20]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun 1. strikebreaking - confrontational activities intended to break up a strike by workers
opposition, confrontation - the act of hostile groups opposing each other; "the government was not ready for a confrontation with the unions"; "the invaders encountered stiff opposition"
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Translations

strikebreaking

[ˈstraɪkˌbreɪkɪŋ] n he was accused of strikebreaking → l'hanno tacciato di crumiraggio
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Though US labor historians have written a great deal about white and black workers' scabbing on each other's strikes, Haberland is, to my knowledge, the first to discuss strikebreaking based on cultural stratification, as when churchgoing black women on strike at a New Orleans suit factory in 1954 found themselves replaced by unchurched black women from a tough neighborhood.
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Prior to Hayes's presidency, most strikebreaking had been done directly by companies, by courts, or by the state militias under the orders of state governors.
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To the extent that these academics addressed the issue at all, they blamed union exclusion on black workers' strikebreaking, blamed employers for playing off white and black workers against each other, or pointed to relatively progressive Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) unions and to unions' political support for the civil rights movement starting in the 1950s as making up for all prior sins.
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