Forms of labour resistance Flashcards

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What is a Hang-over

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The feeling one has the day after drinking to much alcohol the night before

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How did workers resist?

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  1. Break contracts on the mines
  2. Drinking to much over the weekend made the hang-over on Mondays, slow-down production
  3. Workers did their work badly deliberately
  4. broke tools
  5. trade unions were developed
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Explain trade unionism

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White worker from trade unions in 1880. Black workers realised that they could also resist work conditions if they stand together in large groups. But the organisation was difficult to form.

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