Wilson Center Experts
David Stuart Lane
Short-Term Grant
Kennan Institute
Expertise:
Russia and Eurasia
Affiliation:
Reader, University of Cambridge
Wilson Center Project(s):
Explaining Full Employment and Labor Shortage in Socialist States
Term:
Mar 01, 1986
Apr 01, 1986
Project Summary
Characterizing the use of labor in the Soviet market as it is distinct from capitalist societies, Dr. Lane analyzes its uses and attempts to locate the faults for the labor shortage. Lane concludes that the shortages are due to systemic contradictions, being as planners have little control over recruitment and supply. Lanes analysis differs from his contemporaries in that it attempts to account for the relationship between politics and the economy.