a few concessions quickly ended most of these protests. this particular method continued to be used for some years. it cleary was not regarded as a means by which individuals changed jobs, but rather as a means for collective resistance. venturi adds that between 1870 and 1879 in the russian empire there were forty-nine cases in which desertion of work was carried out in an organized way.
flight was still the means of defence to which the worker sometimes resorted to escape from conditions when they became too oppressive.
where the withdrawal is permanent, this method is closely relate to the method of protest emigration described below, although a change in political jurisdiction may not be involved.