Workers of the World, Take PTO! - JSTOR Daily
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Vacations in the Soviet Union were hardly idylls spent with one’s dearest. Everything about them—from whom you traveled with to what you ate—was state determined.

This article is an interesting look at vacations and tourism within the USSR (first place in the world to require paid leave). But, the author can't help but describe everything as a sinister authoritarian conspiracy. I wonder what percent of American workers were going on paid multi day river cruises in the 1970s.

  • SaniFlush [any, any]
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    2 years ago

    Working for a massive chain, I have the feeling that even my head manager would appreciate being able to say no to Corporate's cost-cutting demands at literally any point. He's a pencil-pushing dork who scrunches instead of folding, but I suppose even he could pick up an AKR...