situations during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

In closing, there is some irony when the United States government or U.S. citizens take issue with labor

standards in low-income countries, because the United States is not a world leader in government laws to

protect employees. According to a recent study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and

Development (OECD), the U.S. is the only one of 41 countries that does not provide mandated paid leave for

new parents, and among the 40 countries that do mandate paid leave, the minimum duration is about two

months. Many European workers receive six weeks or more of paid vacation per year. In the United States,

vacations are often one to three weeks per year. If European countries accused the United States of using

unfair labor standards to make U.S. products cheaply, and announced that they would shut out all U.S. imports
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