Labor payment in kolkhoz and sovkhoz organizations in the Belarusian Soviet Socialistic Republic (during the 1944-1985 years)

Abstract

During all the time the salary was an important stimulation factor for country work. In the period from 1944 to 1965 the workday was a form of wage of collective farmers, but at the same time it wasn’t the instrument of their motivation to labor productivity growth. The Party and state elite of BSSR have taken up conservative position and didn’t pay much attention to this factor. Such their position had a negative impact on performance of indicators of five-year plans. In 1966 the workday ceased to exist. Instead workday the man-day has been taken as a basis to account the wage of collective farmers. Most of the paid category of collective farmers was a group of administrative personnel representatives including chairmen and chief specialists of farms. On average, they received three times more than other collective farmers. Employees of field crews and stock-raising farms which have been engaged into preparation of forages, manual processing of fields, care of crops of gardens and kitchen gardens were the lowest-paid category of collective farmers.