Download or read book The Industrial Workers in the Soviet Union written by Arcadius Kahan and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Soviet Industrial Worker written by David Stuart Lane and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1978 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: S. 150-151: Glossary of Russian names and terms.
Download or read book Soviet Industrial Worker written by David Stuart Lane and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1978-09-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Workers in Stalin s Russia written by Vladimir Andrle and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Soviet Worker written by Leonard Schapiro and published by Springer. This book was released on 1982-06-18 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Soviet Worker written by Leonard Schapiro and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of revised research papers on labour policy and the situation of the working class in the USSR - examines wage policy, incomes policy and human resources planning; discusses workers' social status, working conditions, living conditions, welfare, social security, etc.; comments on the role of trade unions and the access to education of workers' children; includes comparisons with government attitudes towards workers in Poland. References.
Download or read book Working Conditions in Soviet Industry written by SOVIET INDUSTRY. and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About working conditions in the Soviet industry in the 1950s.
Download or read book Industrial workers in the Soviet Union written by and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stakhanovism and the Politics of Productivity in the USSR 1935 1941 written by Lewis H. Siegelbaum and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988-03-25 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first study in English of a major and instructive episode in the history of the Soviet Union. The Stakhanovite movement commemorated the mining of 108 tons of coal by Alexi Stakhanov in 1935 and it was an important symbol by which the state urged workers to achieve greater productivity. As Siegelbaum shows, Stakhanovism can be used to explore the social relations within Soviet industry at a critical stage in its development. In this sense, Stakhanovism was an important symbol of a shift in official priorities from construction of the means of production via increasing inputs of labor to intensive use of capital and labor.
Download or read book The Soviet Worker written by Arvid Brodersen and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to the role of the worker in the USSR - includes historical and theoretical roles, employment policy, national planning for industrialization in the stalin era, labour force training, working conditions, labour productivity, and the workers place in the social structure and in politics. Bibliography pp. 267 to 273.
Download or read book The Control of Industrial Labor in the Soviet Union written by Jerzy G. Gliksman and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Workers in the Soviet Union written by Andrew Rothstein and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Industrial Labor in the U S S R written by Arcadius Kahan and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1979 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of conference papers on industrial workers in the USSR - covers labour force participation and labour policy in the industrial sector, the role of trade unions, standard of living and wages, the participation of woman workers in industrial production, etc. References. Conference held in Princeton 1977 Sep 27 to 29.
Download or read book Ideology Heroism and Industrialization written by Marcia Mueller and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This thesis argues that the Stakhanovite movement in the U.S.S.R. functioned as a hero system, manipulated by Stalin, to meet the needs of a rapidly industrializing socialist economy, Research for the thesis proved difficult, for the literature on Stakhanovism is meager and often tendentious, Therefore, emphasis is placed upon claims made about the movement, rather than upon actual production records and statistics. Since no books have been written on Stakhanovism in English and no doctoral dissertations or other theses have been recorded with University Hicrofilms International. the information for this paper has been gleaned from early works and dissertations on Soviet history and industry. In 1928, under Stalin's leadership, the Soviet Union began a series of Five-Year Plans for rapid industrialization. During the time of the Cultural Revolution (1928-1931), the country's economic policies were based upon proletarianization, i.e., upon strict equality of wages, increased educational opportunities for workers and their children, and revolutionary enthusiasm (expressed through the work of shock brigades) in the factories. As the plan progressed, however, Stalin and party leaders had to come to terms with the incongruity between the principles of r rxism and the requirements of industrialization. Marx called for an egalitarian society, free from state and bureaucratic oppression and without the sense of alienation arising from extreme division of labor. Marx believed that when the ownership of the means of production passed from the hands of capitalists to the hands of workers, the proletariat, the evils of social and economic injustice would end. However, the evils Marx condemned arose not only from the capitalist ownership of the means of production, but also from the very nature of the production process itself and its organizational matrix. Industrial firms are complex, or bureaucratic, organizations, which demand hierarchical structures of authority, experts with specialized knowledge, division of labor for the performance of complex and varied tasks, and a system of incentives to motivate workers to comply with and strive for organizational goals. Marx's egalitarian ideals and his hope that each worker could become pro-ficient in all jobs, including management, were clearly unrealistic when viewed in the light of industrial imperatives. Beginning in 193G, Stalin prepared tb reconcile Marxist theory with industrial needs. He said that immediate hopes for world-wide Marxist revolutions must be abandoned, and that for the present, the Soviet Union had to continue to str ggle towards communism alone. Before that utopian stage could be reached, however, the country had to pass through the stage of socialism. Thus, socialism was to be what Anthony F.C. Wallace calls a transfer culture, comprising the policies to be carried out and the interim goals to be achieved before the goal culture, communism, could be attained. Stalin declared that during the stage of socialism there could be no equality of wages or consumption because the productive capacity of the country was too low. He moved away from deterministic inter- pretations of Marxist doctrine and deterministic theories of social science toward teleological and individualistic interpretations, which supported his policies encouraging personal achievement and unequal rewards. With the call for socialism in one country, Stalin also resurrected the best from Russia's past. He extolled old heroes and old traditions to increase the pride and patriotism of Soviet citizens. He called upon writers to portray exemplary role models with the qualities needed by the new Soviet man: strength, dedication, discipline, perseverance, and initiative. The model "new Soviet man" emerged in August, 1935, when Alexei Grigor'evich Stakhanov re-organized the tasks of his work crew and set a new cutting record--seven times greater than the norm--in his Donbas mine. As word of Stakhanov's achievement spread, workers in other industries also began setting new records and increasing production norms. Thus was the Stakhanovite movement born. Stalin gave Stakhanovism his enthusiastic support, and soon the Stakhanovites were national heroes. They were glorified by the media; they were awarded medals and honors; they were given higher wages and more perquisites than ordinary workers. In turn, the movement developed a new attitude toward labor and encouraged new forms of task organization. The prestige surrounding Stakhanovite achievement evoked a normative commitment to work itself and led to a work ethic in a country which had never experienced the Reformation and the connection between Protestant aspirations and developing capitalism. The Stakhanovites increased their output by rationalizing the production process in a manner similar to that of the scientific management experts in the West. Stakhanovite methods were then used to push the economy forward. Stalin also found other uses for Stakhanovism. He believed that enthusiasm from below could be an antidote to what he perceived as apathy and inertia in the upper levels of Soviet industrial organizations. Hany managers were undereducated "Old Bolsheviks" who had participated in the revolution, but who had no experience in running large industries. They tended to hide behind bureaucratic rules and regulations to avoid blame for production problems and failures, many of the latter actually resulting from the flaws in centralized planning. Stalin, blaming the managers rather than the unrealistic plans, encouraged the Stakhanovites to force up output from below and set and example for all workers. Stakhanovism was also used to counteract technocratic tendencies on the part of "bourgeois" experts, i.e., the engineers who had been educated during the tsarist regime. The "bourgeois" experts had not been supporters of the Bolsheviks, and after the revolution, they were suspected (anc sometimes accused) of industrial sabotage. By the end of the 1920's, many of the "bourgeois" engineers were developing a professional ideology calling for more control over all aspects of technology, including industrial planning and production. Their control over powerful, modern technologies and over ill-educated Red managers made the "bourgeois" engineers look like a threat to party domination. Until the new Red specialists were through school, properly educated in technology and properly indoctrinated in Marxist and Stalinist ideology, competent workers from the bench were promoted to higher positions. The Stakhanovites' completion of technical training programs and their work experience made them more qualified than many Red managers. Their position as culture heroes in Soviet society made them loyal to the party and to Stalin, with whom they shared a symbolic, familial relationship. Therefore, they were safe candidates for promotion into positions where they could counteract any attempts of technocratic hegemony by the "bourgeois" engineers. The fame and influence of the Stakhanovites were great until 1939. A Variety of reasons for the decline of the movement could be advanced, but one is especially probable: The Red specialists, in large numbers, were finishing school and ready to assume responsibility over industry. Hard workers, such as the Stakhanovites, continued to be praised and rewarded, but the new emphasis was on formal technical education and rigorous political indoctrination. Stalin's use of prestige and heroism as an incentive system, it is argued, quite likely sprang from his own fascination with and desire for herosim, as well as from the needs of the country's socialist economy. The demand for work incentives in socialist economies continues to pose problems for Marxist leaders. How those leaders meet the demands could provide more material for future studies in comparative communism"--Document.
Download or read book The Vanguard of the Working Class written by Namsub Kim and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Worker Resistance under Stalin written by Jeffrey J ROSSMAN and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the claim that workers supported Stalin's revolution "from above" as well as the assumption that working-class opposition to a workers' state was impossible, Jeffrey Rossman shows how a crucial segment of the Soviet population opposed the authorities during the critical industrializing period of the First Five-Year Plan.
