Labor unrest is a term used by employers or those generally in the business community and sometimes in a community writ large and of law enforcement personnel to describe
organizingOrganizing is the act of rearranging elements following one or more rules.Anything is commonly considered organized when it looks like everything has a correct order of placement. But it's only ultimately organized if any element has no difference on time taken to find it...
and
strike actionStrike action, often simply called a strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to perform work. A strike usually takes place in response to employee grievances. Strikes became important during the industrial revolution, when mass labour became important in factories and mines...
s undertaken by labor unions, especially where labor disputes become
violentViolence in industrial disputes occurs within conflicts between employers and employees about pay or conditions at work. Such conflicts are normally resolved by economic power, or by bargaining if the two sides are of roughly equal power. Sometimes, however, one or both sides will attempt to...
or where
industrial actionIndustrial action or job action refers collectively to any measure taken by trade unions or other organised labour meant to reduce productivity in a workplace. Quite often it is used and interpreted, mistakenly, as a euphemism for strike, but the scope is much wider...
s in which members of a
workforceThe workforce is the labour pool in employment. It is generally used to describe those working for a single company or industry, but can also apply to a geographic region like a city, country, state, etc. The term generally excludes the employers or management, and implies those involved in...
obstruct the normal process of business and generate
industrial unrestIndustrial unrest is the term used to describe activities undertaken by the workforce when they protest against pay or conditions of their employment....
are essayed.
Labor unrest is a term used by employers or those generally in the business community and sometimes in a community writ large and of law enforcement personnel to describe
organizingOrganizing is the act of rearranging elements following one or more rules.Anything is commonly considered organized when it looks like everything has a correct order of placement. But it's only ultimately organized if any element has no difference on time taken to find it...
and
strike actionStrike action, often simply called a strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to perform work. A strike usually takes place in response to employee grievances. Strikes became important during the industrial revolution, when mass labour became important in factories and mines...
s undertaken by labor unions, especially where labor disputes become
violentViolence in industrial disputes occurs within conflicts between employers and employees about pay or conditions at work. Such conflicts are normally resolved by economic power, or by bargaining if the two sides are of roughly equal power. Sometimes, however, one or both sides will attempt to...
or where
industrial actionIndustrial action or job action refers collectively to any measure taken by trade unions or other organised labour meant to reduce productivity in a workplace. Quite often it is used and interpreted, mistakenly, as a euphemism for strike, but the scope is much wider...
s in which members of a
workforceThe workforce is the labour pool in employment. It is generally used to describe those working for a single company or industry, but can also apply to a geographic region like a city, country, state, etc. The term generally excludes the employers or management, and implies those involved in...
obstruct the normal process of business and generate
industrial unrestIndustrial unrest is the term used to describe activities undertaken by the workforce when they protest against pay or conditions of their employment....
are essayed.
Such a conception of labor action was common in the
United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
in the nineteenth century, most prominently amongst
mining interestsMining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually from an ore body, vein or seam. Materials recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron, uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone, oil shale, rock salt and potash...
in the American West, and remained common in the twentieth century CE amongst totalitarian states, such as the
Soviet UnionThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. The name is a translation of the , tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated СССР, SSSR. The common short name is Soviet Union, from , Sovetskiy Soyuz...
and
People's Republic of ChinaThe People's Republic of China , commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the most populous in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately one-fifth of the world's population...
, in which complete control of the
working classWorking class is a term used in academic sociology and in ordinary conversation to describe, depending on context and speaker, those employed in lower tier jobs as measured by skill, education, and compensation....
is desired.