From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
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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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

Source: Union Bank of Switzerland, Prices and Earnings Around the Globe,
1991 (Zurich: UBS, 1991), p. 8.

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_We're Number One, Where America Stands -- and Falls -- in the New     
World Order_ by Andrew L Shapiro.    

New York, May 1992.

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)]

    ``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.''

                        -Robert B. Reich, author of The Work of Nations    

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