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Definition of Strikebreaker

1. Noun. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.

Definition of Strikebreaker

1. Noun. A non-unionized worker hired to replace a striking union worker. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Strikebreaker

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Strikebreaker

Literary usage of Strikebreaker

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. What's what in the Labor Movement: A Dictionary of Labor Affairs and Labor by Waldo Ralph Browne (1921)
""The fact is," says the staff report of the FEDERAL COMMISSION ON INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, "practically without exception, either that the strikebreaker is not ..."

2. Negro Migration During the War by Emmett Jay Scott (1920)
"... you have savagely fought him, because they used him as a strikebreaker. But the negro must be made to see the value of organization to himself, ..."

3. British Labor Conditions and Legislation During the War by Matthew Brown Hammond (1919)
"Let us work to shift him from his present unhappy position, where he is despised by the big business element, notwithstanding his utility as a strikebreaker ..."

4. Union Labor in Peace and War by Walter V. Woehlke (1918)
"The character of his offense had not changed, but he no longer was a strikebreaker. As a good union man he could be trusted with a pistol, so his bail was ..."

5. Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market: A Treatise on Economic by Murray Newton Rothbard (2004)
"... because that is the consequence of their voluntary acceptance of the mystique of "not crossing the picket line" or of not being a strikebreaker. ..."

6. Law and Order in San Francisco: A Beginning, Submitted by the San Francisco by Edward H. Hurlbut (1916)
"Two nights before the shooting of Olsen a strikebreaker named Hawkins, an American citizen sixty years of age, in the employ of the California Stevedore and ..."

7. Working Class Justice: A Popular Treatise on the Law of Injunctions in Labor by Maurice Sugar (1916)
"By the last case, standing still, saying nothing, and doing nothing, as a strikebreaker goes by, is picketing! By the first case, picketing is illegal no ..."

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