The labor market in the USSR long has constituted a source of interest to Westerners. Information on its organization and actual operation has been sparse and often confusing. In this article, based on observations and interviews during a thirty-day stay in the Soviet Union and on intensive...

Focuses on the labor legislation approved by the Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic and other union republics on July 15, 1970, and the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet signed into law on November 26, 1971. Publication of the Principles of Labor Legislation of the USSR and...

Provides information on different issues in the Soviet Union labor market. Manpower planning and policies involved in economic central planning; Discussion of unemployment and labor shortages; Provisions on economic development. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)

Although collective bargaining in its usual sense obviously does not exist in the Soviet Union, this article offers evidence that some Russian labor unions nevertheless provide a limited form of protection to their members. The author analyzes three Soviet collective agreements and a host of...

During the past year, Professor Brown spent almost three months in the Soviet Union, pursuing her interest in the industrial relations system of that country. This article reports her findings on the nature of unionism at the plant and shop levels, based on observations made in a variety of...

Examines the interests and rights of Soviet industrial workers as of 1963. Individual workers' disputes over alleged violation of their rights; Sources of labor conflict in the Soviet Union; Workers' interests and policy decisions of the Communist Party and the Soviet state; Trade union council...