IV Russian-Dutch workshop
"Work Incentives in Russian Industry 1861-2000:
Compensation, Commitment and Coercion"

Yaroslavl, October 3-6, 2001

Workshop Program

Thursday, October 4

Opening session

9:00. Jan Lucassen (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam - IISH)
   Recent Developments in the International Institute of Social History.

Session I.
Chair: Jan Lucassen

9:30. Timur Valetov (Moscow State University - MSU)
    Social Conditions as a Work Incentive at N.N.Konshin Textile Manufacture in the Beginning of the 20th Century.
   Discussant: I.Shilnikova.

10:15. Yulia Smirnova (Yaroslavl State University - YaSU) and Irina Shilnikova (Documentation Centre for Contemporary History of Yaroslavl Region - DCCHYaR)
    Punishment as the Mode of Labor Stimulation of Yaroslavl Textile Workers (the Second Half of 19th Century - Beginning of 20th Centuries).
   Discussant: L.Borodkin.

11:00. Coffee-break.

11:20. Irina Shilnikova (DCCHYaR)
    Wages in the System of Labor Stimulation of the YaBM Textile Workers in the Early 20th Century.
   Discussant: T.Valetov.

12:05. Andrey Markevich (Institute for Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences - IRH RAS)
    Labor Stimuli During the World War I at the Guzhon Factory.
   Discussant: Yu.Smirnova.

13:00. Lunch.

Session II.
Chair: Leonid Borodkin

14:15. Andrey Sokolov and Victoria Tyazhelnikova (IRH RAS)
    Attitude to Labor and Labor Ethics of the Russian Workers. Case Study and Historical Context. Part I (to the Middle of the 1930s).
   Discussants: L.Borodkin, Yu.Yerusalimsky.

15:00. Sergey Bychkov (Tver State University - TSU)
    General and Specific in Methods of Forming Labor Motives in Pre-Revolutionary and Soviet Russia (Based on the Materials of the Tver Carriage-Building Factory in 1918-1928.
   Discussant: I.Garskova.

15:45. Coffee-break.

16:05. Yurii Yerusalimsky (YaSU)
    Labor Motivation of Yaroslavl Region Textile Workers (the End of 1920s - Beginning of 1930s).
   Discussant: E.Safonova.

16:50. Alexey Miryasov (Penza State University)
    Work Incentives at Penza Enterprises in 1920s-1930s: Evidence from the Regional Archive.
   Discussant: M.Mukhin.

17:35. Yurii Kiryanov (IRH RAS)
    Work Incentives of Industrial Workers in Pre-Revolutionary Russia (the Beginning of 20th Century).
   Discussant: Yu.Yerusalimsky.

19:00. Dinner.

Thursday, October 4

Session III.
Chair: Andrey Sokolov

9:00. Leonid Borodkin (MSU)
    When Did Soviet Workers' Wages Differentiation Really Reduced?
   Discussant: A.Sokolov.

9:45. Irina Garskova (MSU)
    Work Incentives Reflected in the Protocols of General Meetings of the "Sickle and Hammer" Employees (1922-1932).
   Discussant: T.Slavko.

10:30. Coffee-break.

10:50. Sergey Zhuravlev (IRH RAS)
    Comrade Juries and Labor Conflict Commissions at the Electrozavod in the 1930s and Problems of Work Incentives.
   Discussant: T.Slavko.

11:35. Mikhail Mukhin (IRH RAS)
    Stimulation of Work During the Industrialisation Drive as It Viewed in Electrozavod.1930-1935.
   Discussant: E.Safonova.

12:20. Tatyana Slavko (TSU)
    Socio-Economic Planning and Working Behaviour of Industrial Workers and Empoyees in Russia in the First Five-Year Periods (Based on the Materials of Tver Carriage-Building Factory).
   Discussant: S.Zhuravlev.

13:15. Lunch.

Session IV.
Chair: Lex Heerma van Voss

14:15. Svetlana Togoeva (TSU)
    Factors Influencing Work Incentives at the Tver Carriage-Building Factory in 1941-1951.
   Discussant: V.Tyazhelnikova.

15:00. Elena Safonova (Russian State University for Humanities)
    Work Incentives at the "Proletarskaya Pobeda" Textile Factory, 1930s-1960s: Preliminary Results of Oral History Research.
   Discussant: S.Zhuravlev.

15:45. Coffee-break.

16:05. Alexandra Rostchina (Moscow City Archive)
    Labor Motivation at the "Serp i Molot" Factory in the Mirror of Press in the Afterwar Period.
   Discussant: S.Togoeva.

16:50. Victoria Tyazhelnikova (IRH RAS)
    Compulsion and Compensation in Motivation of Labor at the "Serp i Molot" Factory. 1955-1975.
   Discussant: S.Afontsev.

17:35. Coffee-break.

17:55. Sergey Afontsev (Institute for World Economy and International Relations, RAS)
    Do Money Matter? Evidence From Russia's 1990s.
   Discussant: A.Sokolov.

18:40-19:10. Jan Lucassen (IISH)
    Conclusion Remarks.

20:00. Conference Dinner.