18 Jun
1998
18 Jun
'98
2:06 a.m.
BTW, disgruntled French factory weavers who realized the threat of
automated Jacquard looms to their skilled jobs were known to throw their
wooden shoes, sabots, into the mechanical workings in order to express
their displeasure at being replaced by a machine. Hence the the coining of
a new word - sabotage.