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Labor Turnover in the Soviet Union

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

David E. Powell
David E. Powell*
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Russian Research Center, Harvard University
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The major objective and main content of the policy which our Party consistently implements involves creating for the worker the most pleasant surroundings for work, study, and leisure, in order to develop and utilize his abilities to the fullest.

Leonid Brezhnev

In recent years, Soviet officials and scholars have expressed increasing concernabout the "lack of discipline" among industrial workers in the USSR. Laborproductivity remains low, and it is improving at an unacceptably slow pace. Atthe same time, "shirking," "idling," on-the-job drunkenness, and industrial accidentsare widespread. But the most troublesome manifestation of the Sovietworker's lack of discipline is the high rate of labor turnover.

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Slavic Review , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , June 1977, pp. 268 - 285
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 1977

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