Factory and community in Stalin's Russia : the making of an industrial working class / Kenneth M. Straus.

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [1997], ©1997.

xiv, 355 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

From revolutionary Russian proletariat to quiescent Soviet working class -- Moscow's proletarian district and the hammer and sickle steel plant -- Recruiting workers : the labor market turned upside down -- Attaching workers : the stick, the carrot, and the labor market -- Training workers : from apprenticeship to mass methods -- R-r-r-r-revolutionary shock work and socialist competition -- The factory as social melting pot -- The factory as community organizer -- The red directors transform Soviet industrial relations -- The making of the new Soviet working class.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-350) and index.

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