strikebreaking
- noun
- /ˈstraɪkˌbreɪkɪŋ/
:
rompimiento de huelga
- During the labor dispute, the company resorted to strikebreaking by hiring temporary workers to replace the strikers.
- students for strikebreaking
- engage in strikebreaking
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College and university administrators recruited students for strikebreaking more openly and aggressively than ever before.
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Students continued to engage in strikebreaking after the early 1920s, but never on a scale resembling that of the first two decades of the twentieth century.
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To these students, strikebreaking was just another group extracurricular activity.
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Women had little involvement in strikebreaking even in the 1920s, when commitment to reform causes declined sharply.
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Comprising fully 15 percent of the strikebreaking force, the students' intervention was a significant factor in the patrolmen's defeat.
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However, the Great Depression transformed the campuses in ways that diminished strikebreaking's appeal to students.
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Labor's quiescence from the early 1920s to the early 1930s provided few opportunities for strikebreaking, but the trade union movement experienced a dramatic revival after 1933.
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The most prominent case of student strikebreaking during the 1930s occurred during the 1934 San Francisco longshoremen's strike, when a sizeable contingent from the University of California at Berkeley.
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Collegians became heavily involved in strikebreaking not just because they experienced severe anxiety about their masculinity, but also because administrators at the turn of the century eliminated "cane rush" and other campus rituals that had allowed mass student participation in violence.
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While university president Cyrus Northrup approved of the strikebreaking, the school newspaper, The Minnesota Daily, expressed concern that Minnesota's trade unions might pressure the state legislature to deny appropriations to the university.
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Etymology
Strikebreaking is a compound of strike (when workers stop work to protest) and breaking, from the verb break, meaning 'to end' or 'destroy'. So strikebreaking literally means 'breaking' a strike — taking actions to stop or weaken a workers' protest.