Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ROUSSEAU AND REVOLUTION, by Will and Ariel Durant. This final volume of their 38-year labor to record man's progress across the span of 20 civilizations proves once again that the Durants are unique historians...
...prone industry. Since 1834, the U.S. economy has ridden the cyclical roller coaster through 31 booms and busts. Nobody is willing to predict that cyclical peaks and troughs can entirely be eliminated. But many economists are convinced that with prudent and prompt cooperation between business and Government, business and labor, and President and Congress-lately, a big if-they can be flattened out considerably...
...Bolshevik coup decimated the Russian population and laid waste the land. The Stalinist reign of terror destroyed millions of Russians, among them many of the most intelligent and talented, and put a permanent scar of guilt on the nation's psyche. Industrialization was accomplished only by forced labor and the long and severe deprivation of the populace. The self-defeating collectivization of agriculture was squeezed from the blood and brows of the stolid and melancholy peasantry. Fear has been the single most dominant characteristic of 50 years of Communism...
...purposes and goals of the KKE, especially the National Front of Liberation (EAM), National Solidarity, ELAS, EPON, United Democratic Left (EDA), EDA Youth, Democratic Movement G. LAMBRAKIS, League of Greek Women Voters (PEG), Greek Committee for International Amity and Peace, Bertrand Russell Committee for Peace and Disarmament, Democratic Labor Movement, Committee for the free functioning and activity of the parties ordinating Committee of Working and the legalization of KKE, Coordinating Committee of Working Greek Youth, Coordinating Committee of Working Women, Panhellenic Struggle for the Defense of Constitution and Democracy, National Student Union of Greece (EFEE), Coordinating Committee of High School...
...government and private business continue to fire "unnecessary employees" as well as "troublemakers," regardless of an official ban on dismissing workers. About a third of the government's understaffed Archeological Service has been discharged as a measure of economy. There is no unemployment compensation and, of course, no free labor union to protest...