THE GREAT DEPRESSION 1929 1940
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
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Because its members did not want to work
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To protest unfair working conditions
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To protest the government’s welfare policies
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To protest the rise of fascism
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Detailed explanation-1: -Sit-down strikes became a favorite tactic of unions during the 1930s. The basic idea was for workers to stop what they were doing on the assembly line and bring all production to a halt. The workers then, in effect, occupied the factory. This lessened the chance of strike-breakers taking over their jobs.
Detailed explanation-2: -Strikes are sometimes used to pressure governments to change policies. Occasionally, strikes destabilize the rule of a particular political party or ruler; in such cases, strikes are often part of a broader social movement taking the form of a campaign of civil resistance.
Detailed explanation-3: -A sit-down strike is a labour strike and a form of civil disobedience in which an organized group of workers, usually employed at factories or other centralized locations, take unauthorized or illegal possession of the workplace by “sitting down” at their stations.