(in the former Soviet Union) a member of a shock brigade.
（前苏联的）突击队成员
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It recognized tens of thousands of women in retailing as labor heroes: exemplary workers, shock workers, and Stakhanovites.
The state wanted them to be literary shock workers, but they wished to remain artists.
During the first five-year plan, Soviet workers who exceeded their production quotas were designated as ‘shock workers‘[udarniki] and given special incentives and awards.
This amount varied, depending on whether the prisoner was a shock worker or a Stakhanovite, an invalid, in isolation, etc.
At one time Stakhanovites had been shock workers who assisted in the intensification of the exploitation of their fellow workers by working harder and forcing up the tempo of work.
Definition of shock worker in US English:
shock worker
noun
(in the former Soviet Union) a worker whose group exceeded production quotas and was assigned to a particularly urgent or arduous task.
Example sentencesExamples
This amount varied, depending on whether the prisoner was a shock worker or a Stakhanovite, an invalid, in isolation, etc.
During the first five-year plan, Soviet workers who exceeded their production quotas were designated as ‘shock workers‘[udarniki] and given special incentives and awards.
The state wanted them to be literary shock workers, but they wished to remain artists.
At one time Stakhanovites had been shock workers who assisted in the intensification of the exploitation of their fellow workers by working harder and forcing up the tempo of work.
It recognized tens of thousands of women in retailing as labor heroes: exemplary workers, shock workers, and Stakhanovites.