Gender, Work and Wages in the Soviet Union
Gender, Work and Wages in the Soviet Union

Author: K. Katz

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2001-07-19

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 023059655X

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The plight of women in post-reform Russia has its roots in the combination of the new, untrammelled market system and the old legacy of discrimination. The Soviet Union was the first country to give women equal rights and equal pay, but this was not carried through in practice. This is the first study to apply modern econometrics to survey-data collected in the USSR. Analysis of data from Russia shows how legislative equality hid actual discrimination. Katz also challenges the conventional wisdom that, for ideological reasons, Soviet manual workers were favoured over the highly educated. Gender, Work and Wages in the Soviet Union includes a critical survey of economic theories of gender and wages and the Soviet wage-system. The final chapter brings the debate up to date by examining how old and new mechanisms of gender inequality interact in post-Soviet Russia.

Women's Work and Wages in the Soviet Union
Women's Work and Wages in the Soviet Union

Author: Alastair McAuley

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-08-24

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1000634248

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Originally published in 1981, this study is concerned with the extent to which the goal of sexual equality in employment, as set out, for example, in the Soviet constitutions of 1936 or 1977, had been realised in the USSR at the time. The main focus is on the nature and extent of economic inequality in the Soviet Union; the subject has wider implications, not only for our understanding of the USSR but also for our perceptions of the way that labour markets operate in a more general setting. The book should be of interest to feminists and labour economists as well as those with a professional interest in the Soviet Union.

Women, Work, and Family in the Soviet Union
Women, Work, and Family in the Soviet Union

Author: Gail Warshofsky Lapidus

Publisher: Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13:

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USSR. Compilation of articles on woman worker employment trends and the impact on family structure - discusses education of women, labour force participation, skill and educational level, occupational structure, part time employment, return to work, social implications, economic implications, changes in the social role of married women, impact on homemaker tasks, the relevance of population policies, and comments on relevant labour legislation and civil law. Bibliography pp. Xliii to xlvi, references and statistical tables.

The Politics of Women & Work in the Soviet Union & the United States
The Politics of Women & Work in the Soviet Union & the United States

Author: Joel C. Moses

Publisher: Berkeley : Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13:

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Comparison of political aspects and socio-economic conditions determining employment policy response to the arrangement of working time for woman workers in the USA and USSR - compares labour legislation, management attitudes, trade union attitudes, public opinion, and obstacles to social reform in both countries, focussing on part time employment, reduced hours of work, flexible hours of work, work sharing, sex discrimination, etc. Graphs, references, statistical tables.

Women's Work And Women's Lives
Women's Work And Women's Lives

Author: Hilda Kahne

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-09-18

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 1000009610

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This book is a provocative analysis of the nature of the relation between women and paid work in both modernizing and industrial countries. It explores the variables that shape the relationship: demographic factors, the social and cultural context, and the direction of economic development.

Women in transition : changes in gender wage differentials in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
Women in transition : changes in gender wage differentials in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union

Author: Elizabeth Brainerd

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Under state socialism, women fared relatively well in the labor market: female-male wage differentials were similar to those in the West, and female labor force participation rates were among the highest in the world. Have these women maintained their relative positions since the introduction of market reforms? The author investigates this question using household surveys from seven formerly socialist countries. The results indicate a consistent increase in female relative wages across Eastern Europe, and a substantial decline in female relative wages in Russia and Ukraine. Women in the latter countries have been penalized by the tremendous widening of the wage distribution in those countries. Increased wage inequality in Eastern Europe has also depressed female relative wages, but these losses have been more than offset by gains in rewards to observed skills and by an apparent decline in discrimination against women.

The Structure of Soviet Wages
The Structure of Soviet Wages

Author: Abram Bergson

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1944

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9780674844803

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Economists and others concerned with the theory of wages or with the functioning of Soviet economy will find this investigation of the inequality of wages in the Soviet Union an illuminating study. Based on data used by Soviet administrators in making their decisions, it establishes for the first time in a scientifically acceptable manner the principles according to which differences in earnings in the U.S.S.R. are determined. It is also the first study to present comparable data on the inequality prevailing under capitalism.

Job Rights in the Soviet Union
Job Rights in the Soviet Union

Author: David Granick

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1987-09-25

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9780521332958

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The book is concerned with the right of an employee of a Soviet state enterprise to keep his existing job, unless he/she voluntarily quit it to search for another, and with the maintaining of overfull employment in all regional labor markets of the Soviet Union. The author hypothesises that over most other objectives to preserving these conditions favorable for labor. This hypothesis is contrasted with that which explains the low unemployment and low dismissal rate in the Soviet Union simply by the oberheating of the economy, finding a parallel here with capitalist economies in high-boom periods. The novelty of the book is twofold. It is the first examination of the Soviet economy from the theoretic viewpoint described above. Second, it is a full length treatment of labor markets in the Soviet Union and is the first study of such markets since that of Abram Bergson published in the 1940s. Indeed, no similar treatment of labor markets exists for any centrally planned socialist economy.