Labor Traditions—An Important Factor in the Intensification of Production

Abstract

The socioeconomic conditions for the development of ethnic communities are broadly and effectively studied in our social sciences. However, today we also need to study the ethnocultural conditions under which economic processes, and particularly the reproduction and utilization of labor resources, occur. This aspect of the relationship between national (ethnic) and economic phenomena has not been adequately dealt with in the literature, and has not come into broad use in the practice of territorial planning. We shall therefore attempt to examine from this perspective the problems concerning the labor experience of peoples, employment of the population, and economic growth.