Unprotected individual workers are powerless to refuse
Evidence
In his book on the San Francisco General Strike, Selvin describes the futility of individual acts of refusal before the 1933 National Industrial Recovery Act guaranteed the right to join trade unions: In a free labor market, of course, the longshoreman or seaman was free to accept the shipowner’s offer or leave it; in practical terms, standing alone, without resources, living on the edge of subsistence, the longshoreman or seaman was powerless to resist. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 305
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships