>Don't be so quick in condemning x-socialist countries, Nathan. True, their
>unions were "company unions" and did not have the right to collective
>bargaining or to strike, but:
>
>1. The state guaranteed the right to work - which mean that I could go to a
>state employment office and they had a legal obligation to find me a job; and
I grant you this is a wonderful thing. But was it also the case, as in E. Germany, that you were obliged to have a job, that joblessness was illegal?
In 1983 my East German friends told me that a jobless person risked going to prison.
Joanna
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