So yea...this was a bad system, in the sense that nobody could insure they had the same days off. But this article is spun like they were some kind of monsters for persisting this system until...
So yea...this was a bad system, in the sense that nobody could insure they had the same days off. But this article is spun like they were some kind of monsters for persisting this system until 1940.
But this source also fails to mention that the Soviet Union dropping the daily hours worked from 10-12 to 8 in its founding in 1919. The USA didn't get similar protections until 1938.
So yea...this was a bad system, in the sense that nobody could insure they had the same days off. But this article is spun like they were some kind of monsters for persisting this system until 1940.
But this source also fails to mention that the Soviet Union dropping the daily hours worked from 10-12 to 8 in its founding in 1919. The USA didn't get similar protections until 1938.
Here's a better source: https://nintil.com/the-soviet-union-working-hours/
Reading through that, you will find that prior to the fall, the Soviet Union had better working standards in many ways than the USA does today.