Employment Planning in the Soviet Union: Continuity and Change (Studies in Russian and East European History and Society)

A study of many aspects of employment conditions and the labour force in the Soviet Union. It examines production capacity, job rights under Soviet law and an outline of Soviet wage policy. The information is current as Soviet newspapers and journals were used as research material. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction....Pages 1-5 Employment Planning and Labour Balances....Pages 7-48 Labour Redeployment: Trends and Institutions....Pages 49-88 The Demand for Labour....Pages 89-119 Production Capacity Utilisation and Knowledge....Pages 120-166 Labour-saving: Concept and Indicators....Pages 167-224 Wages, Employment and Labour-saving....Pages 225-288 Concluding Remarks: Options for the 1990s....Pages 289-300 Back Matter....Pages 301-334 Full employment is often considered to be an intentional goal of the Soviet Union. Malle (comparative economic systems, U. of Verona, italy) maintains that full employment is not in fact the result of a labor planning policy, but the outcome of an output-volume approach necessarily antithetic to labor-saving. Acidic paper. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. Covers trends during the late 1980s