 Closed shop. Ah, closed shop's a very complicated term. In my period, closed shop meant many different things. As a historian, you'd have to say, what place and time are you asking about before you say closed shop? Yes, so the time and place on the Pacific Coast in the 1930s and 40s and the period that I have studied extensively, the closed shop meant something a little bit different in that if you were trying to sign up for a cannery, so a food processing plant, and you wanted to work canning sardines in Monterey in 1943 or 47...