Bossnappings

The Guardian has an article on the current wave in France of Bossnapping, which is the kidnapping of bosses by workers in attempt to avoid firings or to solve other crisis in the enterprise:

France is braced for a wave of such "bossnappings", as desperate staff take desperate action. Mass layoffs blamed on the financial crisis have seen the protest movement splinter into spontaneous hostage-taking at plants and factories around the country. Chief executives arriving from Paris to announce redundancies find themselves barred from leaving. It is "our only remaining bartering tool" one union leader said.
France has a history of bossnappings dating back to May 1968 and the 1970s, when executives were held hostage in the struggle for rights. Today's demands are more mundane: hostage-takers range from single mothers to the nearly retired - they want jobs, proper pay and no brutal layoffs. The two "bossnappings" this month are the latest examples in a rise in radical gestures that has seen members of the public stage commando "picnics" in supermarkets, feasting from the shelves in revenge against multinationals, shouting "we will not pay for your crisis".

Bossnappings are able to happen in France because the French look at entrepreneurs and other's rich people who are at the head of a business with suspicion because to them, they aren't as honest and as hard working as their workers who are doing the real work, which is enabling them to get rich. The point is that in France, an successful entrepreneur is more often than not viewed as a opportunist who has been able to exploit his workers by taking full advantage of the fruits of their labor. The bosses who are the victims of these bossnappings will not be viewed as victims, but rather as people who are the causes of their employees' despair.