Work, Employment and Unemployment in the Soviet Union

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An examination of the Soviet regime's views on work, employment and unemployment, of its employment and anti-unemployment policies and measures, and of how it regulates behavior on the job and interaction within and between formal organizations. The relevant aspects of its demographic, wage and social policies are reviewed. J.L. Porket is a Senior Associate at St Antony's College, Oxford. He specialises in economics and economic sociology. He is Czech by origin, and left Czechoslovakia in 1969. He was formerly a research fellow at the Prague School of Economics. He has published in both Czech and English on communist systems in Europe and the Soviet Union and post-communist transformations. He has also lectured at Brunel University. Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents List of Tables and Figures Introduction Part I: Types of Economic System and Unemployment 1 Types of Economic System 1.1 Pure Types and Actual Economies 1.2 Economic Systems and Political Systems 1.3 Market Capitalism and Command Socialism 1.4 Trade Unions Conclusion 2 Types of Unemployment 2.1 Forms of unemployment 2.2 Unemployment by Origin 2.3 Voluntary and Involuntary Unemployment 2.4 Attitudes Towards Employment 2.5 Employment and Work 2.6 Non-political Consequences of Unemployment 2.7 Political Consequences of Unemployment 2.8 Full Employment Conclusion Part II: A History of the Soviet Case 3 The First Decade 3.1 The Normative Dimension 3.2 The Empirical Dimension 3.3 The End of Registered Unemployment 3.4 Soviet Views on Unemployment Conclusion 4 The Stalin Era 4.1 Collectivization 4.2 Industrialization 4.3 The Standard of Living 4.4 The Post-War Years 4.5 Soviet Ideology Conclusion 5 The Post-Stalin Era 5.1 Khrushchev's Rule 5.2 The 1965 Economic Reform 5.3 Developed Socialism 5.4 From Brezhnev to Gorbachev 5.5 The Standard of Living Conclusion Part III: An Analysis of the Soviet Case 6 Open Unregistered Unemployment 6.1 Labour Turnover 6.2 Labour Exchanges 6.3 Women 6.4 Young People Conclusion 7 Overmanning 7.1 The State Sector 7.2 Shchekino 7.3 Work Collectives 7.4 The Brigade System 7.5 Collective Farms Conclusion 8 The Use of Educational Qualifications 8.1 Attitudes Towards Education 8.2 Educational Requirements and Educational Qualifications 8.3 Employment above Skill Level 8.4 Employment below Skill Level 8.5 Employment at Skill Level 8.6 Change of Occupation Conclusion 9 Labour Supply and Demand 9.1 Labour Shortage 9.2 The Demand Side 9.3 The Supply Side Conclusion 10 Prospects 10.1 Options 10.2 Soviet Scholars 10.3 Gorbachev's Initial Years Conclusion Notes and References Part I: Types of Economic System and Unemployment 1 Types of Economic System 2 Types of Unemployment Part II: A History of the Soviet Case 3 The First Decade 4 The Stalin Era 5 The Post-Stalin Era Part III: An Analysis of the Soviet Case 6 Open Unregistered Unemployment 7 Overmanning 8 The Use of Educational Qualifications 9 Labour Supply and Demand 10 Prospects Select Bibliography Index