New roles and relationships among workers, employers and government.

Although mass strikes continued through the first half of the 20th century, the United States involvement
in two world wars introduced new roles and relationships among workers, employers and government.
Price controls, war boards, state intervention, federal troop occupation and in-fighting between workers
and their unions were all part of the backdrop of the workers’ protests, wildcat strikes and violence from
all sides. Within this time period a new work stoppage strategy emerged, and became widely used: the sit-down.
Why was the sit-down such an effective strategy for workers to use in the workplaces of the 1930s and
the 1940s?