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Lockout  n.  The closing of a factory or workshop by an employer, usually in order to bring the workmen to satisfactory terms by a suspension of wages.






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"Lockout" Quotes from Famous Books



... used by the upholders of that order. Among the workers, for instance, the only weapons used were general strikes, boycotts, and what is now called sabotage. These were wholly imitative and retaliative. It is clear that the strike is, after all, only an inverted lockout; and as early as 1833 a general strike was parried by a general lockout. The boycott is identical with the blacklist. The employer boycotts union leaders and union men. The employees boycott the non-union products of the employer; ...
— Violence and the Labor Movement • Robert Hunter



Words linked to "Lockout" :   resistance



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