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- Subject: The Decline of U.S. Labor Movement (I)
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- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 18:39:26 GMT
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- P a i d v a c a t i o n d a y s p e r y e a r , 1 9 9 1 :
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- In the 19 major industrial nations:
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- COUNTRY(50) VACATION DAYS COUNTRY VACATION DAYS
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- Spain 32.0 Belgium 24.6
- Netherlands 31.9 Italy 24.6
- Norway 31.4 United Kingdom 24.5
- Germany 29.9 Japan 24.0
- Finland 28.6 Switzerland 23.4
- Sweden 27.8 Ireland 22.9
- France 27.0 Australia 22.4
- Austria 26.8 Canada 14.7
- Denmark 25.0 United States 10.8
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- Source: Union Bank of Switzerland, Prices and Earnings Around the Globe,
- 1991 (Zurich: UBS, 1991), p. 8.
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- >From Page 103
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- _We're Number One, Where America Stands -- and Falls -- in the New
- World Order_ by Andrew L Shapiro.
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- New York, May 1992.
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- Vintage Books, a division of Random House.
- $10 paperback. ISBN 0-679-73893-2
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- [Transcribed by jhwoodar@well.sf.ca.us (Joe Woodard)]
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- ``America is becoming a land of private greed and public squalor.
- This book is an indispensable road map through the wreckage. The
- facts it reveals will startle you. They may depress you. But
- ideally they'll fire you up to help rebuild this nation.''
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- -Robert B. Reich, author of The Work of Nations
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