Word: wageless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eclipse-and little active resistance to the overall repression. The fact is that the Czechoslovak people have resorted to passive resistance to the point where their slowdowns in factories and on farms are endangering the entire economy. Only recently, for example, the government proclaimed four Saturdays as wageless extra workdays because of "serious economic shortcomings." The Czechoslovaks did not exactly respond with patriotic fervor. As an industrial worker in Prague commented: "So now we will loaf on four additional working days...
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