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Definition of Strikebreaking
1. Noun. Confrontational activities intended to break up a strike by workers.
Definition of Strikebreaking
1. Noun. Activity intended to disrupt or end without an agreement a strike by workers. ¹
2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to such activity. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Strikebreaking
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Strikebreaking
Literary usage of Strikebreaking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Role of Federal Military Forces in Domestic Disorders, 1877-1945 by Clayton D. Laurie, Ronald H. Cole (1997)
"23 Although the contention that the National Guard was revived as an antilabor,
strikebreaking force is still disputed, strike duty became one of its major ..."
2. What's what in the Labor Movement: A Dictionary of Labor Affairs and Labor by Waldo Ralph Browne (1921)
"Some of these organizations openly avow strikebreaking as the chief of their
activities; others, though more cautious in their avowals, are essentially ..."
3. Unfair Advantage: Workers' Freedom of Association in the United States Under by Lance A. Compa (2000)
"Striking workers charged that Mormon leaders were encouraging strikebreaking.
Some Mormon church members confirmed that church leaders counseled going to ..."
4. For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto by Murray Newton Rothbard (2006)
"Furthermore, local and state laws often protect unions from being sued, and they
place restrictions on the employers' hiring of strikebreaking labor; ..."
5. The American Year Book by Simon Newton Dexter North, Francis Graham Wickware, Albert Bushnell Hart (1911)
"The police gave protection, but express wagons were followed by mobs, who destroyed
tile wagons. threw away the packages, and l)eat the strikebreaking ..."
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