By Roland Huntford
This booklet is a caution. it's a terrifying portrait of an "ideal" society that has destroyed democracy within the identify of "progress." Roland Huntford demonstrates via truth after surprising truth how an it appears democratic, filthy rich, peaceable utopia is completely managed by means of a paperwork which actively discourages all symptoms of individuality.
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If central bargaining was to be anything more than empty words, each party had to monopolize the representation of its side of industry, so that it could talk with real authority. It is one of the most telling indications of the Swedish condition that, although the Saltsjobaden agreement obviously depended on universal trade union membership, it does not specify the closed shop. Enunciation of that principle is absent, because it is unnecessary. The Swedish trade unions have never had to press for a closed shop: it was voluntarily presented to them.
The accession of AdolfFrederick's son, and successor, Gustaf III, in 1771, opened the final act of Sweden's relegation to the world of minor states, Perevelotchna was in 1709; only in 1788, when Gustaf 32 The New Totalitarians essayed the last, disastrous attempt to regain Swedish ascendancy over Russia, did the Swedes finally begin to understand that their military genius had deserted them. Thenceforth they have looked on Russia with obsessive fear as an hereditary tribal enemy. Gustaf's son, Gustaf IV, presiding over the disasters of the Napoleonic wars, was made scapegoat for the national misfortune, and deposed.
It was the peace treaty between labour and capital. The signatories agreed that their interests were the same, and that antagonism would get them nowhere. They committed themselves to the peaceful settlement of industrial disputes. Strikes were outlawed as long as the agreement was in force. The right to strike was not, however, abolished; it was regulated. In order to strike without breach of faith, it was necessary to repudiate the agreement, which required at least a fortnight's notice. Under the guise of rules of procedure, a cooling-off period had thus been built into the system.