Word: kiruna
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ticked along as smoothly as a Swiss watch. Steady economic growth was matched by full employment. Swedes enjoyed Europe's highest per capita income. Most enviable of all was the nation's record of labor peace. Except for one drawn-out struggle by iron miners in remote Kiruna within the Arctic Circle, it had not suffered a major strike since 1945, when metalworkers staged a five-month walkout. All of this seemed even more remarkable in light of the fact that virtually everyone in Sweden-even clergymen-belongs to a labor union...