Legal protection historically enabled workers to afford collective refusal

Evidence

Acts of collective refusal are obviously more “costly” for participants if they’re considered illegal. Unions, especially in the 1930s and 1940s, provided the formal protection needed for striking workers to participate in a strike, and those protections in turn were codified into law (for a time, anyway). — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 305

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Protective labor laws could cost women their jobs rather than help them — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 3195