The term ‘strike in reverse’ was used by Danilo Dolci, sometimes called ‘the Sicilian Gandhi,’ to describe an action where the citizens of Partinico, whom he had come to help with their desperate poverty, mustered out and built a badly needed road to their community when the government had refused to do so or to issue them permission to do it themselves.  In this sense a reverse strike is both constructive and resistant at the same time.