This book seeks to discover the extent to which the claim-the provision of regular paid labour and a permanent occupation for all who are able to work-is true and whether there are any features of society in distinction from capitalism which lead to the provision of full employment.

Introduction: The Labour Process -- Soviet Marxism and the Ending of Mass Unemployment -- A Full-Employment Economy? -- Planned and Market Labour Mobility -- Types of Involuntary Unemployment -- Labour Productivity -- The Process of Redundancy, Displacement or 'Freeing' of the Workforce in Conditions of Labour Shortage -- Distinguishing Features of the Soviet Labour Market -- The Brigade System and the Work Process -- Full Employment and Labour Shortage: The Direction of Change