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:
“In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt.”
—John Reed (1887–1920)
“Show enough regret, and your refusal will inspire gratitude.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“But this rough magic
I here abjure, and when I have required
Some heavenly music—which even now I do—
To work mine end upon their senses that
This airy charm is for, I’ll break my staff,
Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
And deeper than did ever plummet sound
I’ll drown my book.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The aim of the laborer should be, not to get his living, to get “a good job,” but to perform well a certain work; and, even in a pecuniary sense, it would be economy for a town to pay its laborers so well that they would not feel that they were working for low ends, as for a livelihood merely, but for scientific, or even moral ends. Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)