| 单词 | free labourer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfree labourer 27. Of or designating workers who are not members of a trade union. Esp. in free labour, free labourer. Cf. sense A. 1c. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > work of non-union persons free labour1867 1867 Times 5 Sept. 6/4 Not until the men formed a Union of their own on the principles of non-union..could they succeed in asserting their independence. The actual event has shown that 3,000 miners at the least wished to keep their rights of free labour. 1891 Spectator 17 Jan. The refusal of Union men to work with free-labourers. 1914 Econ. Jrnl. 24 183 Towards the end of 1912 the miners at Waihi, Auckland, came out on strike... The owners then introduced free labour; these new labourers formed a new union..and under the protection of the law ousted the old union. 1960 J. Saville in A. Briggs & J. Saville Ess. Labour Hist. ix. 323 The strike was eventually broken by the large-scale importation of free labour under heavy police escort and protection. 1975 I. McLean Keir Hardie v. 92 The company's general manager..introduced a large number of ‘free labourers’ or blacklegs to try to get the trains moving. 1993 Jrnl. Latin Amer. Stud. 25 95 The ANT and the shippers strongly lobbied the government to rescind the 1919 decrees and restore a regime of ‘free labour’ to the port. < as lemmas |
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