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To be unpopular it is necessary to be roundly disliked, or disrespected. Scab is a term invented by labor movements to describe non union workers who accept jobs with businesses who've ceased negotiating with unions. When unions go on strike and refuse to work because of breakdown in contract negotiations those people who "cross the picket" line to work are known as scabs and amongst unions and labor movements these people are not at all popular. The man who accepted a job because a union employee refuses to work, so that man might provide for his family is not unpopular with his family. It is doubtful he is unpopular with his friends and neighbors, he is just unpopular with labor movements. And the question should be why? If labor movements ever hope to seek any real validity as a necessary component of economics then they are going to have to learn more than they know about business. Unions and labor movements do not care if the business they work at is profitable and many believe profit is theft. The labor movement endeavors to sell themselves as the peoples advocate, asserting that most Americans today enjoy the five day work week, overtime pay, paid vacations, retirement funds and maternity leave because of their efforts. For some one who works on the weekends, has not had a vacation for years, is forced to ask his pregnant wife to work to help out with the bills, labor movements are no more than part of the reason he pays so much for fruits and vegetables at the store, pays so much for clothing and why he can't afford to buy a car. Labor takes credit for your prosperity whether you're prosperous or not and expects you to boycott any business they strike. How unpopular scabs were in the late 1800's doesn't compare to how unpopular unions and the labor movement have become today.
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Why were scabs unpopular with stricking workers during the late 1800's?
Scabs or blacklegs were people willing to pass the picket line of striking workers. Often this meant the factory owners could continue producing, leaving the strikers to starve outside the factory gates.
Why were scabs unpopular with the workers during the late 1800?
During these years, there were a number of strikes as unions began to organize and demand decent wages. In general, blacks were willing to become "replacement workers," as the companies called them, or "scabs," as the unions called them. Sources: http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0700/frameset_reset.html?http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0700/stories/0701_0131.html
Why were scabs unpopular with striking workers during the late 1800s?
You can never be sure what it will achieve. But scabs were only making the chance of a strike working more ineffective =)
What did industrial consolidations and trusts reduce during the late 1800's?
Industrial consolidation and trusts reduced competition during the late 1800's =)
What were the job conditions in the late 1800?
it was a very bad rate of unemployment in the late 1800 because that was during the great depression
What did the government do during strikes and other labor management conflicts of the late 1800's?
What did the government do during strikes and other labor management conflicts of the late 1800's?
What invention changed communication during the late 1800?
Telephone.
When did mozzarella first come to England?
During the late 1800's
The growth of population in cities during the late 1800 was known as what?
Urbanization
What was it like living in France during late 1800's-?
Living in France during the late 1800's can be likened to the typical life of a rural setting where agriculture is the main activity of the occupants.
Where was Jazz music founded?
New Orleans during the late 1800's.
What newsboys were called during the late 1800's?
they were called Newsboys.
