Work, Employment and Unemployment in the Soviet Union

A book distinguishing between the situation in the labour market and the utilization of the employed labour force in the Soviet Union. The author attempts to show that since the abolition of open registered unemployment in 1930 the economy has suffered from chronic and general overmanning.

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Part 1 Types of economic system and unemployment. Part 2 A History of the Soviet Case: the first decade; the Stalin era; the post-Stalin era. Part 3 An analysis of the Soviet case: open unregistered employment; overmanning - the state sector, Shohekino, work collectives, the brigade system, collective farms; the use of educational qualifications. Part 4 Labour supply and demand. Part 5 Prospects: options; Soviet scholars; Gorbachev's initial years.