Author: Andrew RothsteinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism and society
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Workers in the Soviet Union
Author: Andrew RothsteinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism and society
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Workers Before and After Lenin
Author: Manya GordonJob Rights in the Soviet Union
Author: David GranickPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521332958
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The book is concerned with the right of an employee of a Soviet state enterprise to keep his existing job, unless he/she voluntarily quit it to search for another, and with the maintaining of overfull employment in all regional labor markets of the Soviet Union. The author hypothesises that over most other objectives to preserving these conditions favorable for labor. This hypothesis is contrasted with that which explains the low unemployment and low dismissal rate in the Soviet Union simply by the oberheating of the economy, finding a parallel here with capitalist economies in high-boom periods. The novelty of the book is twofold. It is the first examination of the Soviet economy from the theoretic viewpoint described above. Second, it is a full length treatment of labor markets in the Soviet Union and is the first study of such markets since that of Abram Bergson published in the 1940s. Indeed, no similar treatment of labor markets exists for any centrally planned socialist economy.
The Soviet Social Contract and why it Failed
Author: Linda J. CookPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674828001
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This book is the first critical assessment of the likelihood and implications of such a contract. Linda Cook pursues the idea from Brezhnev's day to our own, and considers the constraining effect it may have had on Gorbachev's attempts to liberalize the Soviet economy.
The Russian Workers' Republic
Author: Henry Noel BrailsfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The Soviet Worker
Author: Leonard SchapiroPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349054380
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
A Dream Deferred
Author: Donald A. FiltzerPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039117970
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
This volume brings together the latest work in Russian labour history, based on exciting materials from previously closed archives and collections. Sixteen essays, focusing on peasants and workers, explore the lives and struggles of working people. Ranging over a century of dramatic upheaval, from the late 1800s to the present, the essays are organized around three broad themes: workers' politics, incentives and coercion within industrial and rural workplaces, and household strategies. The volume explores the relationship between the peasantry and the working class, a nexus that has been central to state policy, oppositional politics, economic development, and household configuration. It profiles a working class rent by divisions and defined not only by its relationship to the workplace or the state, but also by its household strategies for daily survival. The essays explore many topics accessible for the first time, including the motivations of women workers, roots of revolutionary activism, the revolutionary movement outside the great cities, socialist opposition to the Soviet regime, reactions of workers to Stalinist terror, socialist tourism, peasant families in forced exile, and work discipline on the collective farms.
Labor Conditions in the Soviet Union
Author: Edmund NashThe Condition of the Workers in Great Britain, Germany and the Soviet Union 1932-1938
Author: Jürgen KuczynskiBehind the Urals
Author: John ScottPublisher:
ISBN: 9780253351258
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
John Scott's classic account of his five years as a worker in the new industrial city of Magnitogorsk in the 1930s, first published in 1942, is enhanced in this edition by Stephen Kotkin's introduction, which places the book in context for today's readers; by the texts of three debriefings of Scott conducted at the U.S. embassy in Moscow in 1938 and published here for the first time; and by a selection of photographs showing life in Magnitogorsk in the 1930s. No other book provides such a graphic description of the life of workers under the First Five-Year Plan.