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==Origin== According to different sources, the term "slacker" dates back to about 1790 or 1898.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=slacker&searchmode=none |title=Online Etymology Dictionary, slack (adj.) |publisher=Douglas Harper}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dictionary.com/browse/slacker |title= Dictionary.com slacker (noun) |publisher=Editors of dictionary.com}}</ref> "Slacker" gained some recognition during the [[UK|British]] [[Gezira Scheme]] in the early to mid-20th century, when [[Sudan]]ese labourers protested their relative powerlessness by working lethargically, a form of protest known as "slacking".<ref>V. Bernal, "Colonial Moral Economy and the Discipline of Development: The Gezira Scheme and 'Modern' Sudan", ''Cultural Anthropology'', Vol. 12, 1997, 447β79</ref><ref>Robert Sydney Smith, ''Warfare & Diplomacy in Pre-Colonial West Africa'' ([[University of Wisconsin Press]] 1989), 54-62</ref>
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