| 词汇 | sit-down strike |
| 词源 | sit-down strike; sit-in. Sit-down strikes, common in the 1930s, involved workers sitting down at their machines and re- fusing to let other workers take their places until a strike was settled. Sit-ins, a tool of civil-rights and other protest groups in the 1960s, employed the same technique, these passive protests originally being used only against racial segregation. |
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