Sabotage

Sabotage is a deliberate action aimed at weakening an enemy through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction.

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The name derives from the early industrial age, when powered looms could be damaged by the wooden shoes (known in French as sabots) of the displaced weavers (proto-saboteurs) being thrown into the machinery. Literally it means, "clattering in sabots". Radical trade unions, such as the IWW, have advocated sabotage as a means of self-defence and direct action against unfair working conditions. One of the tasks of security guards is therefore the prevention and detection of sabotage.

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Direct action: Direct action is a method and a theory of stopping objectionable practices or creating more favorable conditions using immediately available means, such as strikes, boycotts, workplace occupations, sit-ins, intimidation, harassment or sabotage, and less oppositional methods such as establishing radi...

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Sabotage

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►	Introduction
►	Origin
►	Sabotage in war
►	Sabotage as part of a crime
►	Sabotage online
►	References
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►	External links, Resources, and References

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