Examples of stoppage

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Unofficial dock strikes began at once and the threat of widespread stoppages of work became very real.
Such politically expedient strikes help to account for the upsurge in work stoppages in 1963 and 1964.
In the aftermath of both these outbursts of militancy stoppages of work declined dramatically.
Moreover, where labour disputes in small enterprises might cause little stir, stoppages in major plants proved highly contagious.
The disruption of cane supplies to mills, with consequential industrial stoppages, could thus be severe.
In spite of this impressive record of organised mass stoppages of work, a fully articulated proletarian consciousness still remains a force of the future.
He says the army provides an easy life and denies that men's pay suffers from stoppages.
The test is of whether the mean number of stoppages per week has changed.
The stoppages for a wake or a fair or a three-day drinking spree were an accepted part of the potter's life-and they proved the most difficult to uproot.
The interests of the union and its members then begin to diverge, thus giving rise to rank and file revolts expressed in unofficial organization and in local, wildcat stoppages.
The autarkic policies facilitated the setting up of small businesses supplying easily accessible goods, as opposed to those subject to stoppages in the supply of materials.
Notwithstanding this, the stoppage of new planting (and the opening of new estates) was also responsible for this reduction in mortality.
If the attacks upon property are but light, the stoppage of gainful activity is correspondingly slight.
Both types of stoppage were therefore omitted from the model.
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