Bartleby and Occupy and short hist of sit-ins

[alice wellintown]

Why stand out in the rain? Why let the union leadership meet and talk
in comfortable rooms? Why let other desperate men come and work the
machines? To walk out, to vacate the work space, was to invite
replacement like any broken cog or worn out part.

But OWS, like Bartleby, has nothing whatever to do with sit-down strike.

> The first major sit-down strike was at the Firestone rubber plant in
> Akron, OH, 1936. That was a strike against the all usual behaviors of
> unrestricted corporate scorn for workers.