Controlling Soviet Labour
Experimental Change from Brezhnev to Gorbachev
1st Edition
Published on 1. June 1988
Book
Hardback
305 pages
978-0-87332-470-0 (ISBN)
Description
With a growing population, deteriorating economic conditions, and an unstable imperial centre, Soviet Central Asia would seem destined to become a trouble spot. Instead Islamic traditionalism has survived and flourished in Central Asia. This book looks at the reasons why.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Armonk
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Weight
453 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87332-470-0 (9780873324700)
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Person
Bob Arnot
Content
Introduction; Part I Social Relations of Production and Economic Problems in the USSR; Chapter 1 The Surplus and Class Structure; Chapter 2 The Political Economy of the USSR; Chapter 3 The Vicious Circle of Soviet Economic Problems; Chapter 4 Labour Discipline and Labour Shortage; Part II The Experimental Initiatives; Chapter 5 The Shchekino Experiment; Chapter 6 A Reappraisal of the Results of the Shchekino Experiment; Chapter 7 The Attempted Generalisation of the Shchekino Experiment; Chapter 8 The Shchekino Experiment and the Logic of Soviet Planning; Chapter 9 Alternative Attempts to Assert Control Over the Labour Process; Chapter 10 Conclusions;