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The Expansion of the Labor Market in Capitalist Russia: 1861–1917*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2011

Gaston V. Rimlinger
Gaston V. Rimlinger
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Rice University
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Anyone interested in the historical anlysis of the emergence of a wage labor force in the early stages of industrialization will find much of interest in Rashin's study of the Russian case. The value of this study, an expansion and elaboration of a work published in 1940, lies in both over-all and sector estimates of the growth and composition of the work force, and in detailed data on specific aspects of the movement from the land to the factory.

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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , June 1961 , pp. 208 - 215
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1961

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1 Rashin does not specify clearly in what kind of establishment other than their own homes workers in group 1–2 were employed, but it is apparent that they belonged to small shops. Tsarist statisticians were not consistent in their exclusions from the category “factories and works.”

2 Rashin, Table 13, p. 42.

3 Data for these estimates are from Bureau of the Census, Abstract of the Census of Manufactures, 1914 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1917), Table 2, p. 17Google Scholar. It was not until 1909 that the Census gave the number of workers by employment size of establishment. In that year 14.4 per cent of the workers were in establishments with twenty workers or less. The computation for 1899 assumes sixteen per cent to take account of the trend toward concentration in larger plants.

4 Rashin, Table 34, p. 98.

5 Computations based on Bureau of the Census, Abstract of the Census of Manufactures, 1914, Table 197, pp. 422–23.

6 Rashin, Table 35, p. 101; Bureau of the Census, Abstract of the Census of Manufactures, 1914, Table 196, pp. 412–13.

7 Rashin, pp. 101–2, 105.

8 Baykov, A., “The Economic Development of Russia,” Economic History Review, Second Series, VII (December 1954), 137CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

9 Eason, W. W., Soviet Manpower (Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, 1959), Table 9, p. 84Google Scholar.

10 Rashin, p. 208.

11 Ibid., p. 473.

12 Ibid., p. 315.

13 Ibid., Table 131, p. 541.

14 See ibid., Table 138, p. 566.