Editing Strike action (section)

=== Origin of the term ===
The use of the English word "strike" to describe a work protest was first seen in 1768, when sailors, in support of [[Demonstration (political)|demonstration]]s in [[London]], "struck" or removed the [[topgallant sail]]s of merchant ships at port, thus crippling the ships.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hyperhistory.org/index.php?option=displaypage&Itemid=746&op=page|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060301153809/http://www.hyperhistory.org/index.php?option=displaypage&Itemid=746&op=page|url-status=dead|title=Strike!|first=Tony|last=Taylor|archive-date=2006-03-01|work=ozhistorybytes - Issue Eight: The History of Words|via=hyperhistory.org}}</ref><ref>"A body of sailors… proceeded… to Sunderland…, and at the cross there read a paper, setting forth their grievances… After this they went on board the several ships in that harbour, and struck (lowered down) their yards, in order to prevent them from proceeding to sea." (''Ann. Reg.'' 92, 1768), quoted in ''Oxford English Dictionary'', 2nd ed., s.v. "strike, v.," sense 17; see also sense 24.</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Worrall |first=Simon |url=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/08/140831-pirates-horatio-nelson-samuel-adams-royal-navy-somalia-ngbooktalk/ |title=Were Modern Ideas—and the American Revolution—Born on Ships at Sea? |work=[[National Geographic]] |publisher=[[National Geographic Society]] |date=1 September 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140831182929/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/08/140831-pirates-horatio-nelson-samuel-adams-royal-navy-somalia-ngbooktalk/ |archive-date=31 August 2014 |access-date=31 August 2014 }}</ref>