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Pinkerton agents escort strikebreakers in Buchtel, Ohio, 1884 Industrial Workers of the World stickerette "Don't Scab". A strikebreaker (sometimes pejoratively called a scab, blackleg, bootlicker, blackguard or knobstick) is a person who works despite an ongoing strike.
Employers in the United States have had the legal right to permanently replace economic strikers since the Supreme Court's 1937 decision in NLRB v. Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co. [31] Meanwhile, employers began to demand more subtle and sophisticated union busting tactics, and so the field called "preventive labor relations" was born. [32]
In 1937, there were 4,740 strikes in the United States. [23] This was the greatest strike wave in American labor history. The number of major strikes and lockouts in the U.S. fell by 97% from 381 in 1970 to 187 in 1980 to only 11 in 2010. Companies countered the threat of a strike by threatening to close or move a plant. [24] [25]
Pear scab, a pear fungal disease caused by Venturia pirina or Fusicladium pyrorum; Poinsettia scab, a spot anthracnose disease caused by Sphaceloma poinsettiae; Powdery scab, a disease of the skin of potatoes caused by the protozoa Spongospora subterranea; Sheep scab, a skin disease of sheep caused by the mite Psoroptes ovis
The Homestead strike was organized and purposeful, a harbinger of the type of strike which marked the modern age of labor relations in the United States. [12] The AA strike at the Homestead steel mill in 1892 was different from previous large-scale strikes in American history such as the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 or the Great Southwest ...
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Convict leasing in the United States was widespread in the South during the Reconstruction Period (1865–1877) after the end of the Civil War, when many Southern legislatures were ruled by majority coalitions of African Americans and Radical Republicans, [9] [10] and Union generals acted as military governors. Farmers and businessmen needed to ...
From a French phrase meaning to toss a wooden shoe (a sabot) into the machinery to slow things down. [33] The Saint Refers to Vincent St. John [2] Sallies Salvation Army hotels and industrial workshops Scab A strike breaker [2] Scissorbill A worker who identifies with the boss, or who lacks class consciousness; hobo who thinks he can be President.