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- Title
Full Employment in Soviet Theory and Practice.
- Authors
Porket, J. L.
- Abstract
The official Soviet ideology has never tired of repeating that socialism is not only completely different from capitalism, but also in all respects (i.e., socially, economically, politically, culturally, and morally) superior to it. In order to substantiate this claim, the ideology cites a long list of achievements, three of them being that socialism abolishes unemployment entirely and once and for all, guarantees the right to work, and ensures full employment. <BR> Since full employment of the able-bodied population allegedly exists in the Soviet Union, it is legitimate to ask what Soviet sources understand by it and what it amounts to in practice. Not surprisingly, an attempt to answer these two questions will not be able to avoid the problem of unemployment and that of the right to work either.
- Subjects
SOVIET Union; EMPLOYMENT; UNEMPLOYMENT; FULL employment policies; LABOR supply; SOCIALISM
- Publication
British Journal of Industrial Relations, 1989, Vol 27, Issue 2, p264
- ISSN
0007-1080
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8543.1989.tb00221.x