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Stakhanovism was a movement begun in the Soviet Union in 1935 to increase labour productivity by the popularization of work techniques reputedly initiated by workers themselves.
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Siegelbaum, L.H. (2018). Stakhanovism. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_1954
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