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Sit-down strikes enabled a small number of workers to stop the production of an entire company by taking physical possession of the plant and its machines. By occupying a single strategic area of a plant, strikers could encourage others to join the strike and shut down the plant until the employer agreed to deal with the union. Sit-down strikes brought production to a total and immediate halt and eliminated the use of scab workers to break the strike. A benefit of the wave of sit-down strikes in the 1930s was that there were no casualties and little property damage as compared to normal strikes. The sit-down strike was a form of passive resistance that moved away from the violence surrounding strikes.
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