Evolution of labour motivation for textile workers in soviet Russia (1918-1929): a microanalysis of archival data
Irina Shilnikova
HSE Working papers from National Research University Higher School of Economics
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This paper examines the main measures taken to stimulate textile workers during the years of “War Communism” and the New Economic Policy and identifies the dynamics of the roles of the main elements of the labour stimulation system (compensation, coercion, and commitment). We discover what stimuli proved to be the most efficient during “War Communism” and the New Economic Policy. We analyse whether there was succession in the industrial labour stimulation system in pre-revolutionary (1880-1914) and Soviet (1918-1929) Russia and how actively Soviet managers employed the best practices of the pre-revolutionary factory administration. This paper also analyses the question of new practices introduced in the changing political and socio-economic circumstances. This paper is mainly based on archival sources.
Keywords: Soviet Russia; “War Communism”; New Economic Policy; labor motivation; textile industry. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21 pages
Date: 2013
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Published in WP BRP Series: Humanities / HUM, April 2013, pages 1-21
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