title: “The Unemployment Ghost”: A problem of Miners’ and Their Family Members’ Employment in Coal-mining Regions of the RSFSR at the End of the 1950s and the Beginning of the 1970s’
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metadata.value: Bakanov, S. A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-04-04T15:50:08Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-04-04T15:50:08Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-03
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metadata.value: Bakanov S. A. ‘“The Unemployment Ghost”: A problem of Miners’ and Their Family Members’ Employment in Coal-mining Regions of the RSFSR at the End of the 1950s and the Beginning of the 1970s’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 8, no. 1, 2018, pp. 195–207.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu24.2018.113
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/9307
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metadata.value: The elimination of unemployment in the USSR was considered as one of the most important accomplishments
  of the socialist development model and its undoubted advantage over capitalist countries. Nevertheless,
  in the second half of the 20th century unemployment was yet present in the Soviet economic realities though
  it had an ideologically harmonious name “employment difficulties”. Evidence is presented from the papers from
  the federal archives which have not been published before. The most difficult unemployment situation was in the
  old industrial coal-mining regions: in the Donbass, in the Moscow-area coal basin and in the Urals at the end of
  the 1950s and the beginning of the 1970s. In this period the coal-mining industry had difficulties in profitability
  and social problems because of structural shifts in the economy which caused changes in the fuel and energetic
  balance of the USSR. The women, teenagers and silicosis sick lost their job on mines which caused employment
  competition in coal-mining-dominant cities at the end of the 1950-s. Shutting down scores of mines caused
  unemployment problems for tens of thousands of people in old industrial coal-mining regions. Unemployment
  here had a cellular nature; it hit coal-mining towns. Unemployment demonstrated the labor market tightness in
  industrial cities. Major enterprises in such towns consumed up to 90 % of all industrial funds and staff which meant
  that a jobless employee had no chance to get a new job in the same town. The government evolved a strategy to
  overcome these unfavorable conditions. But due to the coal-mining specific character, the strategy wasn’t effective
  enough and it only caused conservation of social problems in the coal-mining regions.
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metadata.value: Статья подготовлена при финансовой поддержке РГНФ. Проект № 15-31-01226.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 8; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: history of coal-mining industry
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: miners
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: unemployment
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: USSR
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: employment difficulties
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Soviet economy in the 1950–1970s
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: “The Unemployment Ghost”: A problem of Miners’ and Their Family Members’ Employment in Coal-mining Regions of the RSFSR at the End of the 1950s and the Beginning of the 1970s’
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metadata.value: Article
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