Refusal To Work or Perform
- Strike action, also known as a walkout, a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to perform work
- Culture strike, refusal of artists or art institutions (arts organizations, festivals etc.) to respectively produce and show art
- General strike, strike action by a critical mass of the labor force in a city, region or country
- Hunger strike, participants fast as an act of political protest, or to provoke feelings of guilt in others
- Prison strike, strike taking place inside a prison, involving either a hunger strike or a prison work strike
- Rent strike, when a group of tenants en masse agrees to refuse to pay rent until a specific list of demands is met by the landlord
- Student strike, occurs when students enrolled at a teaching institution such as a school, college or university refuse to go to class
- Colloquial derived use, such as "the washing machine's gone on strike."
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Famous quotes containing the words refusal to, refusal, work and/or perform:
“The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.”
—Midge Decter (b. 1927)
“A widow’s refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)
“Poets that lasting Marble seek
Must carve in Latine or in Greek,
We write in Sand, our Language grows,
And like the Tide our work o’erflows.”
—Edmund Waller (1606–1687)
“If anything ail a man, so that he does not perform his functions, if he have a pain in his bowels even,—for that is the seat of sympathy,—he forthwith sets about reforming—the world.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)