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It distinguishes common, ordinary interpretations—such as delay, inefficiency, obstruction, and “conscientious withdrawal of efficiency”—from sensational American associations with violence and destruction. The discussion argues that sabotage can be conducted “within the law” and concerns securing or defending vested rights or preferential business and labor advantages through restriction and misdirection.","􀀁􀀂􀀃 􀀅􀀆􀀇􀀈􀀆􀀃􀀃􀀉􀀊 􀀋􀀆􀀌 􀀍􀀂􀀃 􀀎􀀉􀀈􀀏􀀃 􀀐􀀑􀀊􀀍􀀃􀀒  \n􀀁􀀂􀀓􀀉􀀊􀀍􀀃􀀈􀀆 􀀔􀀃􀀕􀀖􀀃􀀆  \n1921  \n􀀁􀀂􀀃􀀄􀀅􀀆􀀇 􀀁􀀄􀀄􀀉􀀊  \nKitchener  \n2001  \nBatoche Books  \n52 Eby Street South Kitchener, Ontario N2G 3L1  \nCanada [email: batoche@gto.net](email: batoche@gto.net)  \n􀀁􀀗􀀕􀀖􀀃 􀀓􀀘 􀀙􀀓􀀆􀀍􀀃􀀆􀀍􀀊  \nI. On the Nature and Uses of Sabotage............................................................ 4  \nII. The Industrial System and the Captains of Industry.............................. 19  \nIII. The Captains of Finance and the Engineers............................................ 34  \nIV. On the Danger of a Revolutionary Overturn......................................... 53  \nV. On the Circumstances Which Make for a Change.................................. 66  \nVI. A Memorandum on a Practicable Soviet of Technicians...................... 86  \n􀀚􀀛 􀀜􀀆 􀀍􀀂􀀃 􀀝􀀗􀀍􀀞􀀉􀀃 􀀗􀀆􀀌 􀀊􀀃􀀊 􀀓􀀘 􀀐􀀗􀀕􀀓􀀍􀀗􀀇􀀃􀀛  \n“Sabotage” is a derivative of“sabot,” which is French for a wooden shoe. It means going slow, with a dragging, clumsy movement, such as that manner of footgear may be expected to bring on. So it has come to describe any manoeuvre of slowing-down, inefficiency, bungling, obstruction. In American usage the word is very often taken to mean forcible obstruction, destructive tactics, industrial frightfulness, incendiarismand high explosives, although that is plainly not its first meaning nor its common meaning. Nor is that its ordinary meaning as the word is used among those who have advocated arecourse to sabotage asa means of enforcing an argument about wages orthe conditions of work. The ordinary meaning of the word is better defined by an expression which has latterly come into use among the I. W. W.,“conscientious withdrawal of efficiency” — although that phrase does not cover all that is rightly to be included under this technical term. The sinister meaning which is often attached to the word in American usage, as denoting violence and disorder, appears to be due to the fact that the American usage has been shaped chiefly by persons and newspapers who have aimed to discredit the use of sabotage by organized workmen, and who have therefore laid stress on its less amiable manifestations. This is unfortunate. It lessens the usefulness of the word by making it a means of denunciation rather than of understanding. No doubt violent obstruction has had its share in the strategy of sabotage as carried on by disaffected workmen, as well as in the similar tactics of rival business concerns. It comes into the case as one method of sabotage, though by no means the most usual or the most effective; but it is so spectacular and shocking a method that it has drawn undue attention to itself. Yet such deliberate violence is, no doubt, a relatively minor fact in the case, as compared with that deliberate malingering, confusion, and misdirection of work that makes up the bulk of what the  \nThorstein Veblen, The Engineers and the Price System, 5  \nexpert practitioners would recognize as legitimate sabotage. The word first came into use among the organized French workmen, the members of certain syndicats, to describe their tactics of passive resistance, and it has continued tobe associated with the strategy of these French workmen, who are known as syndicalists, and with their like-minded running-matesin other countries. But the tactics of these syndicalists, and their use of sabotage, do not differ, except in detail, from the tactics of other workmen elsewhere, or from the similar tactics of friction, obstruction, and delay habitually employed, from time to time, by both employees and employers to enforce an argument about wages and prices. 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