The term utilized when union workers refuse to work due to contractual disagreements is a "A. Strike," since this allows them to have a certain degree of negotiating power of the company in question.
In many ways, F Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's life mirrors that of the US economy.
They had a booming social and financial life in the 1920s but suffered terribly in the 1930s and they found themselves destitute, drunk, and no longer productive.