Lockout — Social Studies definition
An employer’s exclusion of workers from work during a dispute.
Where it is taught
- Labor, Collective Bargaining & Workplace Safety — Industry, Migration & Urban Life, U.S. History: Reconstruction to the Early 21st Century, Grade 8
- Labor Organizations, Industrial Conflict & Workplace Reform — Industry, Migration & Gilded Age Politics, United States History & Government: Colonial Foundations to the Early 21st Century, Grade 11
In use
A strike withholds labor, while a lockout withholds access to work.
Labor, Collective Bargaining & Workplace Safety