Social Security

Work And Benefits

• Unemplyment at 100,000 by 1918 
• Total population of factory workers dropped by 25% during the war
• unemployment rose to 18% by 1924 due to NEP 
• Social insurance covered 9 million workers in the NEP
• Lateness was crimminalised under Stalin  
• Unions lost right to negotiate and strikes were banned 
• Moscow Metro opened in 1930s
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