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The Decline of America: The Decline of American Labor Movement
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Paid vacation days per year, 1991:
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COUNTRY VACATION DAYS
Spain 32.0
Netherlands 31.9
Norway 31.4
Germany 29.9
Finland 28.6
Sweden 27.8
France 27.0
Austria 26.8
Denmark 25.0
Belgium 24.6
Italy 24.6
United Kingdom 24.5
Japan 24.0
Switzerland 23.4
Ireland 22.9
Australia 22.4
Canada 14.7
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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"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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