Soviet Labour And The Ethic Of Communism

David Lane,

• Introduction: The Labour Process -- Soviet Marxism and the Ending of Mass Unemployment -- A Full-Employment Economy? -- Planned and Market Labour Mobility -- Types of Involuntary Unemployment -- Labour Productivity -- The Process of Redundancy, Displacement or ‘Freeing’ of the Workforce in Conditions of Labour Shortage -- Distinguishing Features of the Soviet Labour Market -- The Brigade System and the Work Process -- Full Employment and Labour Shortage: The Direction of Change