Labor reform, or universal labor service - what is it? This is a special set of measures of the government of the RSFSR that were carried out at the beginning of the twentieth century. Its essence was to attract every able-bodied citizen of the country to mandatory work.
A bit of history
War communism gradually spread to all of society. This made the maximalists see certain prerequisites for organizing specialized production. With all this, they did not insist on military communism as a ruin.
War communism is a Soviet economic policy . Its main activities include:
- small and large industry (especially its nationalization);
- centralization and leadership power over distribution and production;
- private trade ban;
- surplus appraisal;
- card system of money and supplying it to the population
- general labor service;
- equalization in wages.
The country's withdrawal from the crisis
Private economy, labor on free, free land is not a way out of a large-scale crisis, it is not a way to save the country. The solution to this problem was the introduction of universal labor service in the USSR. What was needed was a great and largest economy of labor for people, a solid and stable power that would be able to carry out this new reform. The Soviet Union forbade officials to take this matter into their own hands, the reform was to be carried out by the Council of Workers', Peasants' and Soldiers' Deputies. Only the people themselves, knowing the peasant life, could form the labor service and the framework of human labor, which would preserve the peasant labor.
Thus, the transition to general processing would be carried out correctly and gradually, even though it is a very difficult matter that would affect the life of every citizen.
Socialist growth and construction rejected the principle of freedom of labor. For the bourgeoisie, such a principle was presented as freedom of exploitation, and for others, as personal law, freedom and responsibility in order to be exploited. The principle of universal labor service was to find comprehensively active and wide application in life and in practice.
What was the effect of this contradiction?
This contradiction strongly influenced and justified the opposite of the functions of all state systems, although in reality each of them is similar in some ways to another or even several. Universal labor service is nothing but self-government and self-organization of the masses in the world of work. At least in the proletarian dictatorship it was.
The capitalist regime would be strengthened, and the power of the bourgeoisie would be strengthened if the mobilization of all industry took place. The same thing would be with socialism with the same changes in its direction. State coercion in the structure of capitalism is a kind of press, deepening, expanding and ensuring exploitation, as well as its entire process. While coercion by the state is one of the ways to build communism in society.
In 1922, a new labor law was passed, which abolished universal labor service and introduced free hiring of labor.