walk out

Japanese: walk out(英語表記)walkout
walk out

… Today, strikes take many different forms. When trade unions had a monopoly on the supply of skilled workers, strikes took the form of walk-outs, where workers walked out of factories or workplaces. But as the proportion of semi-skilled and unskilled workers increased in the age of monopoly capitalism, strikebreakers could easily be brought in to break strikes, so sit-down strikes, where workers sit down in the workplace and do not work, became the norm. A stay-in is an extension of this sit-down strike, and while a sit-down strike is only during contracted working hours, a stay-in strike involves workers staying in the workplace for long periods of time. …

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

… 今日,ストライキは多種多様な形態のもとに行われている。職業別組合が熟練工の供給独占を行っていた段階では工場・事業所から退去するウォーク・アウトwalk outの形をとっていたが,独占資本主義の時代になって半熟練・未熟練労働者の比重が増大すると,ウォーク・アウトを行っても容易にスト破りを導入されるので,工場・事業所内の職場に座り込んで作業をしないシットダウン・ストsit‐down strikeが支配的となった。ステイインstay‐inはこうしたシットダウン・ストを発展させたもので,シットダウン・ストが契約された就業時間内のものであるのに対し,長時日にわたって職場に籠城するストライキをいう。…

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