Asimov has stated the editorial decision to run the story as "Male Strikebreaker" "represents my personal record for stupid title changes".
[1] "Strikebreaker" had its genesis in June 1956 when Asimov, who then lived in Boston, Massachusetts, was planning a trip to New York City.
It is home to an insular, idiosyncratic human colony of thirty thousand people, who have inhabited the planet in all three dimensions.
Elsevere's ruling council refuses his demands, and if the strike continues, the planetoid's waste processing machinery will break down and every colonist will die from disease.
As neither side will give in, he reluctantly volunteers to operate the waste processing machinery himself; as an outsider, he has no cultural reservations about doing so.