> a contract could be instantly agreed without today’s inhibiting intervention of state formalities and trade unions Stefan Zweig was a novelist, poet and play

> a contract could be instantly agreed without today’s inhibiting intervention of state formalities and trade unions Stefan Zweig was a novelist, poet and playwright, born of a wealthy family, so we can forgive him his lack of understanding of why state formalities and unions exist. (People don't generally form unions if they're being well paid and well treated, as my first piece of evidence, look at the thorough lack of unionisation in software developers).