Formal and informal relations in the period of transition
Formal and informal relations in Soviet industrial production informal relations in the Soviet system of production on a particular kind of love and the specificity of Soviet production the mechanism of paternalistic management of the enterprise - the limits of paternalism paternalism in Russian enterprises - our understanding the position of women in production middle management in industrial production in the transition to the market we didn't make the plan payment systems and the restructuring of production relations in Russia.
Planning and the Worker
The Soviet system of economic planning is based on the principle of command. Developed during a period when, to quote Oscar Lange’s memorable phrase, the Soviet economy was ‘sui generis a war economy’,1 the system operates through the dimensions of hierarchy, subordination and obedience/disobedience, through vertical rather than horizontal links. It is also, of course, a highly centralised system, and matters peripheral by any normal standards may come within the purview and competence of the authorities in Moscow. There is, then, in general terms, a complete contrast between such a system and systems characteristic of Western societies, where vertical and horizontal links mingle to form a picture of bewildering complexity, where the market remains the ultimate nexus of economic activity, even for state-owned enterprises, and where government concerns itself with operational details only in circumstances of emergency (for example, a real war or ecological disaster). In the field of labour, the contrast is not quite so complete in terms of the operational elements of the planning system. Despite the prevalence of the command principle, for example, there is little direction of labour as such in the Soviet Union today. But other contrasts, related to the long-term strategy of planning, make their appearance.
Foundations of Despotism: Peasants, the Trujillo Regime, and Modernity in Dominican History
This book explores the history of the Dominican Republic as it evolved from the first European colony in the Americas into a modern nation under the rule of Rafael Trujillo. It investigates the social foundations of Trujillo's exceptionally enduring and brutal dictatorship (1930-1961) and, more broadly, the way power is sustained in such non-democratic regimes. The author reveals how the seemingly unilateral imposition of power by Trujillo in fact depended on the regime's mediation of profound social and economic transformations, especially through agrarian policies that assisted the nation's large independent peasantry. By promoting an alternative modernity that sustained peasants' free access to land during a period of economic growth, the regime secured peasant support as well as backing from certain elite sectors. This book thus elucidates for the first time the hidden foundations of the Trujillo regime.