Controlling Soviet Labour

With a growing population, deteriorating economic conditions, and an unstable imperial centre, Soviet Central Asia would seem destined to become a trouble spot. Instead Islamic traditionalism has survived and flourished in Central Asia. This book looks at the reasons why.

Bob Arnot

Introduction; Part I Social Relations of Production and Economic Problems in the USSR; Chapter 1 The Surplus and Class Structure; Chapter 2 The Political Economy of the USSR; Chapter 3 The Vicious Circle of Soviet Economic Problems; Chapter 4 Labour Discipline and Labour Shortage; Part II The Experimental Initiatives; Chapter 5 The Shchekino Experiment; Chapter 6 A Reappraisal of the Results of the Shchekino Experiment; Chapter 7 The Attempted Generalisation of the Shchekino Experiment; Chapter 8 The Shchekino Experiment and the Logic of Soviet Planning; Chapter 9 Alternative Attempts to Assert Control Over the Labour Process; Chapter 10 Conclusions;