Labour and Leisure in the Soviet Union: The Conflict between Public and Private Decision-Making in a Planned EconomySocial research study on relationships between labour shortage, individual value systems and employees attitudes towards leisure in the USSR - examines household time budget structure, the labour force participation of woman workers, retired workers, pupils and students, the use of temporary employment and overtime work, etc.; comments on paid leave policy and on failures of the service sector to provide consumer goods and appliances; considers leisure activities of the rural population. References. |
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Labour and Leisure in the Soviet Union: The Conflict between Public and ... William Moskoff No preview available - 2014 |
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agriculture amount appliances Arutiunian average blue-collar workers budget cities collective farm collective garden construction countryside dachas decline difference earned eating enterprise example farmers holidaymakers hours a day hours a week houses of rest housework Iankova Ibid income increase individual Izvestia kolkhoz Kstovo labour force laundry leisure activities Leningrad less Literaturnaia Gazeta manual workers Moldavia non-working number of hours Oblast organised output overtime paid part-time participation pensioners percentage period population Pravda private plot problem production Pskov public catering radio reading roubles RSFSR rural areas sanatoriums seasonal workers second economy Sem'i service sector shortage socialist sector Sotsial'nye Problemy SOURCE Soviet citizens Soviet Union Sovkhoz spend spent SSSR Moscow subbotnik summer Svobodnoe Vremia Tatar ASSR temporary workers tourists trans Trud unorganised urban areas urbanites Vchera villages Vnerabochee Vremia Volgograd Oblast Vremeni wages watching television white-collar workers women