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Incentives for Soviet Store Personnel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Henry H. Ware
Henry H. Ware*
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Department of Economics, Columbia University, University of Washington
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Wages Provide the Soviet retail employee with the direct incentive to work. There are, however, many things which money alone cannot buy. Apart from his direct monetary earnings, the Soviet worker may find that what he is able to get out of life depends to an equally large extent upon where he works, how he works and what is thought of him as a citizen, as well as an employee, by the Party, the labor union, the management, and other active arms of official government policy.

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Research Article
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American Slavic and East European Review , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , February 1950 , pp. 20 - 32
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 1950

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1 Pen'kov, E. G., Pervičnyj učët v magazine (Moscow, 1948), pp. 127–28.Google Scholar

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3 The methods of pay applicable to trade employee categories are established by the following Orders: Trade Commissariat (now Ministry) USSR, No. 205, July 20, 1942; Trade Ministry USSR, No. 157, April 12, 1947, and Trade Ministry USSR, No. 444, September 27, 1947.

4 L. N. Štejnberg, op. cit., pp. 46–47.

5 Ibid.

6 Ibid., pp. 48–49.

7 The most recently announced wage scales for Soviet retail trade employees are those established by the Trade Ministry USSR Order No. 157, April 12, 1947.

8 L. N. Štejnberg, op. cit., p. 50.

9 See Trade Ministry USSR, Order No. 554, July 28, 1948.

10 L. N. Štejnberg, op. cit., p. 49.

11 Ibid., p. 50; Pen'kov, op. cit., p. 131.

12 Pen'kov, op. cit., p. 131.

13 Ibid.

14 L. N. Štejnberg, op. cit., pp. 47–48.

15 Ibid. These wage rates are given in the text as current for the local torg trade system, though it is not stated specifically that they apply to 1948, the year the book was published.

16 Ibid., pp. 51–52.

17 Pen'kov, op. cit., p. 132.

18 See Orders of Council of Peoples Commissars, July 5, 1935 and March 13, 1936.

19 L. N. Šternberg, op. cit., pp. 51–52.

20 Ibid., p. 52.

21 Ibid.

22 The various rates of pay applicable are given in Order of Council of Ministers USSR, No. 3839, November 16, 1947.

23 L. N. Štejnberg, op. cit., p. 53. See Trade Ministry USSR Order No. 249, May 21, 1940.

24 Basenin, N. I., Darinskaja, L. M., and Sokolovskij, N. A., Organizacija i tckhnika rozničhnoj torgovli promyčennymi tovarami (Moscow, 1948), p. 149.Google Scholar

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29 Ibid., pp. 150–51.

30 See Tureckij, Š. Ja., Vnutripromyšennoe nakoplenie v SSSR (Moscow, 1948), pp. 322–23Google Scholar, for the current composition and application of the “director's profits fund.“ This fund until 1946 was of standard composition throughout the Soviet economy: 4 percent of planned profits of enterprise plus 50 percent of profits earned in excess of plan.

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33 Ibid., p. 69.

34 Ibid.

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36 P. Krylov, op. cit., p. 69.