Context for Workers in Collectivisation

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  • Context for workers
    • cultural revolution, supported 5yps
    • rise of Red Specialists
    • more technical education, pay, qualifications
    • Shock Worker policy - rewarded in perquisites for exceeding targets
    • Stakhanovites
    • more women in the workplace
    • Quicksand Society - unskilled, absenteeism, ex-peasants
    • overcrowding in cities, appalling workers' barracks, long queues, lack basic commodities as poor distribution system
    • terrorised the workforce
    • housing increased by 16% but urban population increased 20% higher than expected
    • gigantomania
    • Magnitogorsk Steelworks, Dnieprostroi Dam, Moscow Metro - extravagant giant structures
    • Dependence on coal, iron and steel industries for progress

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