Trade Union Movement in Soviet Russia

Trade Union Movement in Soviet Russia

Year: 1927

Geneva: International Labour Office, 1927. — 292 p. — (Studies and Reports: Series A (Industrial Relations). No. 26) For the purposes of the Tenth Session of the International Labour Conference, which met in May and June 1927, the International Labour Office prepared a comparative study of the situation in various countries as regards freedom of association, this question being one of the items on the Agenda of the Conference. In the course of this work it became evident that, so far as Russia was concerned, it was impossible to treat the subject on the general plan adopted for other countries, and that a simple comparison, restricted by the limits of this plan, between the legal status of workers’ associations in the U.S.S.R. and that of the trade unions in other countries might result in misleading readers not fully cognisant with the fundamental principles of Soviet trade unionism. In Russia, the very conception of trade unionism and all that it includes (organisation of unions, position in th.e State, various activities and duties in connection with the protection of working class interests and the political and economic life of the country, etc.) depend so directly upon the do