Chris Ward

Russia's Cotton Workers and the New Economic Policy

Shop-Floor Culture and State Policy, 1921 1929

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Provides an understanding of key aspects of life on the shop floor of the Russian cotton mill in the 1920s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780521345804
• ISBN-10: 0521345804
• Artikelnr.: 22896515

Inhaltsangabe

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.