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When disgruntled workers damage or destroy equipment or interfere with the smooth running of a workplace, it is called workplace sabotage. This can be as part of an organized [[group]] activity, or the [[action]] of one or a few workers in response to [[personal]] grievances. [[Luddites]] and Radical [[labor union]]s such as the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) have advocated sabotage as a means of self-defense and direct action against unfair working conditions.

When disgruntled workers damage or destroy equipment or interfere with the smooth running of a workplace, it is called workplace sabotage. This can be as part of an organized [[group]] activity, or the [[action]] of one or a few workers in response to [[personal]] grievances. [[Luddites]] and Radical [[labor union]]s such as the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) have advocated sabotage as a means of self-defense and direct action against unfair working conditions.

The IWW was shaped in part by the industrial unionism philosophy of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Haywood Big Bill Haywood], and in 1910 Haywood was exposed to sabotage while touring Europe:

The IWW was shaped in part by the industrial unionism philosophy of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Haywood Big Bill Haywood], and in 1910 Haywood was exposed to sabotage while touring Europe:

The experience that had the most lasting impact on Haywood was witnessing a general strike on the French railroads. Tired of waiting for parliament to act on their demands, railroad workers walked off their jobs all across the country. The French government responded by drafting the strikers into the army and then ordering them back to work. Undaunted, the workers carried their strike to the job. Suddenly, they could not seem to do anything right. Perishables sat for weeks, sidetracked and forgotten. Freight bound for Paris was misdirected to Lyon or Marseille instead. This tactic — the French called it "sabotage" — won the strikers their demands and impressed Bill Haywood.[4] [5] For the IWW, sabotage came to mean any withdrawal of efficiency — including the slowdown, the strike, or [[creative]] bungling of job assignments.[6]

The experience that had the most lasting impact on Haywood was witnessing a general strike on the French railroads. Tired of waiting for parliament to act on their demands, railroad workers walked off their jobs all across the country. The French government responded by drafting the strikers into the army and then ordering them back to work. Undaunted, the workers carried their strike to the job. Suddenly, they could not seem to do anything right. Perishables sat for weeks, sidetracked and forgotten. Freight bound for Paris was misdirected to Lyon or Marseille instead. This tactic — the French called it "sabotage" — won the strikers their demands and impressed Bill Haywood.[4] [5] For the IWW, sabotage came to mean any withdrawal of efficiency — including the slowdown, the strike, or [[creative]] bungling of job assignments.[6]

==Sabotage in defense of the environment==

==Sabotage in defense of the environment==

Certain groups turn to destruction of [[property]] in order to immediately stop environmental destruction or to make visible arguments against forms of [[modern]] [[technology]] considered detrimental to the [[earth]] and its inhabitants. The [[[http://www.fbi.gov|FBI] and other [[law]] enforcement agencies use the term eco-terrorist when applied to damage of property. Proponents argue that since property can not feel [[terror]], damage to property is more accurately described as sabotage. Opponents, by contrast, point out that property owners and operators can indeed feel terror. The image of the monkeywrench thrown into the moving parts of a [[machine]] to stop it from working was popularized by Edward Abbey in the [[novel]] ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monkeywrench_Gang The Monkeywrench Gang]'' and has been adopted by eco-activists to describe destruction of earth damaging machinery.

Certain groups turn to destruction of [[property]] in order to immediately stop environmental destruction or to make visible arguments against forms of [[modern]] [[technology]] considered detrimental to the [[earth]] and its inhabitants. The [[[https://www.fbi.gov|FBI] and other [[law]] enforcement agencies use the term eco-terrorist when applied to damage of property. Proponents argue that since property can not feel [[terror]], damage to property is more accurately described as sabotage. Opponents, by contrast, point out that property owners and operators can indeed feel terror. The image of the monkeywrench thrown into the moving parts of a [[machine]] to stop it from working was popularized by Edward Abbey in the [[novel]] ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monkeywrench_Gang The Monkeywrench Gang]'' and has been adopted by eco-activists to describe destruction of earth damaging machinery.

==Sabotage in war==

==Sabotage in war==

In [[war]], the [[word]] is used to describe the activity of an [[individual]] or [[group]] not associated with the military of the parties at war (such as a foreign agent or an indigenous supporter), in particular when [[action]]s result in the destruction or damaging of a productive or vital facility, such as equipment, factories, dams, public services, storage plants or logistic routes. Prime examples of such sabotage are the events of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Tom Black Tom] and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsland_Explosion Kingsland Explosion].  

In [[war]], the [[word]] is used to describe the activity of an [[individual]] or [[group]] not associated with the military of the parties at war (such as a foreign agent or an indigenous supporter), in particular when [[action]]s result in the destruction or damaging of a productive or vital facility, such as equipment, factories, dams, public services, storage plants or logistic routes. Prime examples of such sabotage are the events of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Tom Black Tom] and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsland_Explosion Kingsland Explosion].  

Unlike acts of [[terrorism]], acts of sabotage do not always have a primary objective of inflicting casualties. Saboteurs are usually classified as enemies, and like spies may be liable to prosecution and criminal penalties instead of detention as a prisoner of war. It is common for a government in power during war or supporters of the war policy to use the term loosely against opponents of the war. Similarly, German Nationalists spoke of a stab in the back having cost them the loss of [[World War I]]. Also see [2].

Unlike acts of [[terrorism]], acts of sabotage do not always have a primary objective of inflicting casualties. Saboteurs are usually classified as enemies, and like spies may be liable to prosecution and criminal penalties instead of detention as a prisoner of war. It is common for a government in power during war or supporters of the war policy to use the term loosely against opponents of the war. Similarly, German Nationalists spoke of a stab in the back having cost them the loss of [[World War I]]. Also see [2].

The cold war included a subtle form of sabotage. One well documented case is the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_pipeline_sabotage Soviets Trans-Siberian Pipeline Incident], triggered by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farewell_Dossier Farewell Dossier].

The cold war included a subtle form of sabotage. One well documented case is the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_pipeline_sabotage Soviets Trans-Siberian Pipeline Incident], triggered by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farewell_Dossier Farewell Dossier].

==Sabotage as part of a crime==

==Sabotage as part of a crime==

Some criminals have engaged in acts of sabotage for [[reason]]s of extortion. For example, Klaus-Peter Sabotta sabotaged German railway lines in the late 1990s in an attempt to extort DM10 million from the German railway operator Deutsche Bahn. He is now serving a sentence of life imprisonment.

Some criminals have engaged in acts of sabotage for [[reason]]s of extortion. For example, Klaus-Peter Sabotta sabotaged German railway lines in the late 1990s in an attempt to extort DM10 million from the German railway operator Deutsche Bahn. He is now serving a sentence of life imprisonment.

#  Jimthor, Stablewars, May 2008

#  Jimthor, Stablewars, May 2008

#  Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood, Peter Carlson, 1983, pages 196-197.

#  Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood, Peter Carlson, 1983, pages 196-197.

#  Sheila MacVicar; Ashley Velie with Amy Guttman (2007-05-23). "U.S. Working To Sabotage Iran Nuke Program". CBS News. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/23/eveningnews/printable2843582.shtml. Retrieved 2007-05-23.  

#  Sheila MacVicar; Ashley Velie with Amy Guttman (2007-05-23). "U.S. Working To Sabotage Iran Nuke Program". CBS News. https://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/23/eveningnews/printable2843582.shtml. Retrieved 2007-05-23.  

==References==

==References==

* Emile Pouget, Le sabotage; notes et postface de Grégoire Chamayou et Mathieu Triclot, 1913; Mille et une nuit, 2004; English translation, Sabotage, paperback, 112 pp., University Press of the Pacific, 2001, ISBN 0-89875-459-3.

* Emile Pouget, Le sabotage; notes et postface de Grégoire Chamayou et Mathieu Triclot, 1913; Mille et une nuit, 2004; English translation, Sabotage, paperback, 112 pp., University Press of the Pacific, 2001, ISBN 0-89875-459-3.

* Pasquinelli, Matteo. "The Ideology of Free Culture and the Grammar of Sabotage"; now in Animal Spirits: A Bestiary of the Commons, Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2008.

* Pasquinelli, Matteo. "The Ideology of Free Culture and the Grammar of Sabotage"; now in Animal Spirits: A Bestiary of the Commons, Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2008.

==External links, resources, and references==

==External links, resources, and references==

* [http://libcom.org/tags/sabotage News, accounts and articles on workplace sabotage and organising] - Sabotage, employee theft, strikes, etc.

* [https://libcom.org/tags/sabotage News, accounts and articles on workplace sabotage and organising] - Sabotage, employee theft, strikes, etc.

* [http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Opening/7482/ciaintro.html Central Intelligence Agency sabotage manual]

* [https://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Opening/7482/ciaintro.html Central Intelligence Agency sabotage manual]

* [http://www.reachoutpub.com/osh/ Ozymandias Sabotage Handbook]

* [https://www.reachoutpub.com/osh/ Ozymandias Sabotage Handbook]

* [http://www.omnipresence.mahost.org/inttxt.htm Online text of the third edition of ''Ecodefense'']

* [https://www.omnipresence.mahost.org/inttxt.htm Online text of the third edition of ''Ecodefense'']

* Brian Martin, ''[http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/01nvc/nvcp08.pdf Sabotage]'', Nonviolence versus Capitalism [PDF]

* Brian Martin, ''[https://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/01nvc/nvcp08.pdf Sabotage]'', Nonviolence versus Capitalism [PDF]

* [http://www.du.edu/~jcalvert/railway/malice.htm Article on malicious railroad sabotage]

* [https://www.du.edu/~jcalvert/railway/malice.htm Article on malicious railroad sabotage]

* [[Elizabeth Gurley Flinn]], [http://www.iww.org/culture/library/sabotage/ Sabotage, the conscious withdrawal of the workers' industrial efficiency]

* [[Elizabeth Gurley Flinn]], [https://www.iww.org/culture/library/sabotage/ Sabotage, the conscious withdrawal of the workers' industrial efficiency]

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