In Search of Flexibility: The New Soviet Labour MarketGuy Standing International Labour Organization, 1991 - 440 Seiten Perestroika in the Soviet Union has necessitated a radical transformation of the labour market. This book encompasses a broad range of views of labour policy-makers and economists from the USSR and abroad. It analyzes recent developments in employment, unemployment, wages and social protection. |
Inhalt
Introduction Guy Standing | 1 |
The new employment policy in the USSR Valeri F Kolosov | 14 |
Unemployment and the new Law on Employment | 57 |
A new employment concept in Soviet labour legislation Yevgeni | 63 |
Labour surplus and labour shortage in the USSR Vladimir | 79 |
Regulating employment in the context of mobility Alexander | 107 |
State employment programmes in the light of the new Law | 121 |
Labour market problems and developments in the Republics | 145 |
Legal tactics and economic practice | 289 |
Conclusion | 292 |
The role of new cooperatives in the Soviet economy Domenico Mario Nuti | 295 |
General features of cooperative enterprises | 298 |
Pre1987 Soviet policy towards cooperatives | 299 |
The new cooperative regime 198788 | 300 |
The new Soviet cooperatives in practice 198990 | 310 |
Supply response and labour redeployment | 312 |
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103 | 184 |
Implications for wage variation | 188 |
Market measures | 190 |
Policy alternatives if differentiation is deemed too great | 191 |
Conclusions prospects | 194 |
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Labour incentives in alternative forms of production Tatyana Tchetvernina | 203 |
The practice of real socialism and levelling ideology | 205 |
Two models of cost accounting | 208 |
Labour incentives and property | 212 |
Looking for new forms and methods of distribution | 214 |
Incentives to labour under leasing | 216 |
The trade union view Vladimir Veretennikov | 221 |
Measures to restructure payrate schemes | 222 |
Trends in wage and income differentials | 225 |
The evolution of forms and systems of labour remuneration | 231 |
The Soviet trade unions position on wage and income differentials | 233 |
Nonwage labour costs in the USSR and the role of trade unions Michael Taylor | 237 |
Trade unions and welfare | 239 |
Welfare issues | 243 |
Current distribution | 249 |
Distribution and trade unions | 253 |
Conclusion | 256 |
The future role of trade unions Georgy Kanaev | 259 |
The impact of perestroika | 261 |
The trade union response | 264 |
The need for social guarantees | 272 |
Alternative trade unions | 274 |
The growth of cooperatives in the Soviet Union Tamara Kuznetsova | 277 |
The role of cooperatives in economic restructuring | 281 |
New features in cooperative development | 283 |
A tentative assessment | 314 |
The link with employment Mikhail Bermant and Marina Feonova | 319 |
The context of education and training reforms | 324 |
The problems involved | 327 |
Conclusions | 335 |
The Swedish experience Rudolph Meidner | 339 |
The volume and potential of Swedish labour market policy | 341 |
The administration of labour market policy in Sweden | 345 |
Employment service and labour market programmes | 347 |
Experiences of company closures | 353 |
Evaluation of labour market policy programmes | 356 |
Conclusions and recommendations | 358 |
Towards economic democracy and labour flexibility? An era of experimentation Guy Standing | 363 |
Regulated markets | 364 |
The deregulated market model of the 1980s | 366 |
Labour market regulations for the 1990s | 371 |
Unemployment and the right to work | 376 |
The future of active labour market policy | 381 |
Some dilemmas | 384 |
Training and humanresource oriented enterprises | 385 |
Towards economic democracy and cooperative flexibility | 389 |
Concluding points | 394 |
An assessment of Soviet labour statistics Iraida Manykina | 401 |
Labour resources in the USSR | 402 |
Characteristics of the labour force | 405 |
The balance of labour resources | 411 |
New directions and methods in the analysis of labour statistics | 413 |
Annexes | 419 |
List of participants | 421 |
Text of the Fundamentals of Employment Legislation of the USSR and the Union Republics 1991 | 427 |
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