Research Catalog

Title

Labour and employment in the USSR / edited by David Lane.

Publication

New York : New York University Press, 1986.

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Details

Additional Authors

Lane, David, 1933-

Description

viii, 280 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Alternative Title

• Labour & employment in the USSR.
• Labor and employment in the USSR.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Labor supply > Soviet Union > History > 20th century > Congresses
• Full employment policies > Soviet Union > History > 20th century > Congresses
• Full employment policies
• Labor supply
• Beschäftigung
• Kongress
• Soviet Union
• Sowjetunion
• Sowjetunion

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• History.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• Papers presented at a conference organized at the University of Birmingham in May 1984.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Marxist-Leninism : an ideology for full employment in Socialist States? / David Lane -- Part I. The historical background -- The ending of mass unemployment in the USSR / R.W. Davies -- A note on the sources of unemployment statistics / R.W. Davies and S.G. Wheatcroft -- The development of Soviet employment and labour policy, 1939-41 / John Barber -- Part II. The economics of full employment -- Lessons of Soviet planning of full employment / Mark Harrison -- The serendipitous Soviet achievement of full employment : labour shortage and labour hoarding in the Soviet economy / Philip Hanson -- Systemic aspects of employment and investment in Soviet-type economies / D.M. Nuti -- Heterogeneity of the Soviet labour market as a limit to a more efficient utilisation of manpower / Silvana Malle -- Part III. Socio-economic problems -- Geographical mobility -- its implications for employment / Ann Helgeson -- Shortage of labour and motivation problems of Soviet workers / Anna-Jutta Pietsch -- Productivity campaigns in Soviet industry / Peter Rutland -- Transition from school to work : satisfying pupils' aspirations and the needs of the economy / Sheila Marnie -- Underemployment and potential unemployment of the technical intelligentsia : distortions between education and occupation / Eduard Gloeckner -- Part IV. Labour and the law -- The USSR law on the work collectives : workers' control or workers controlled? / Elizabeth Teague -- Job security and the law in the USSR / Nick Lampert.

ISBN

• 0814750192
• 9780814750193

LCCN

85015565

OCLC

• ocm12285490
• 12285490
• SCSB-631672

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library