Russia's Cotton Workers and the New Economic Policy : Shop-Floor Culture and State Policy, 1921-1929 (Paperback)

List of plates; List of tables; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Maps; Introduction; Part I. The New Economic Policy and Cotton: 1. Industry; 2. Workforce; Part II. The Mill: 3. Field and factory; 4. Machines and trades; 5. Making an operative; 6. Workers' institutional commitments; Part III. The Crisis of 1923 and its Consequences: 7. The market collapses; 8. Organizing Taylorism: production; 9. Organizing Taylorism: wages; 10. 1925; Part IV. The Crisis of 1927 and its Consequences: 11. Confusion worse confounded; 12. Shop-floor responses; 13. The end of rationality; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.