Russia''s Cotton Workers and the New Economic Policy - Shop-Floor Culture and State Policy, 1921-1929

Klappentext Provides an understanding of key aspects of life on the shop floor of the Russian cotton mill in the 1920s. Zusammenfassung Russia's Cotton Workers and the New Economic Policy provides a realistic understanding of the relationship between worker! state policy and technology in Russia in the 1920s. It also makes an important contribution to debates over the viability of the New Economic Policy and the rise of Stalinism. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of plates; List of tables; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Maps; Introduction; Part I. The New Economic Policy and Cotton: 1. Industry; 2. Workforce; Part II. The Mill: 3. Field and factory; 4. Machines and trades; 5. Making an operative; 6. Workers' institutional commitments; Part III. The Crisis of 1923 and its Consequences: 7. The market collapses; 8. Organizing Taylorism: production; 9. Organizing Taylorism: wages; 10. 1925; Part IV. The Crisis of 1927 and its Consequences: 11. Confusion worse confounded; 12. Shop-floor responses; 13. The end of rationality; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Ward Chris, Chris Ward, Chris (University of Cambridge) Ward
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.06.2002
• EAN: 9780521894272
• ISBN: 978-0-521-89427-2
• No. of pages: 324
• Series: Cambridge Russian, Soviet and
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries