The textile industry enterprises work organisation in Ivanovo Region in the pre-war period (1939–1941)

Abstract

This article is devoted to the organisation of work of textile enterprises in the territory of Ivanovo Region in the pre-war period. It was carried out through the legal decisions of the Soviet government and the People's Commissariat of the Textile Industry of the USSR. However, their implementation was based on the sectoral search for domestic reserves rather than on the development of new investments in the enterprises; that would contribute to an increase in the production of civilian products and a variety of its assortment. In the field of production, they covered an increase in production standards, increased productivity and optimisation of technological processes. In relation to labour collectives, they were aimed at combating violators of labour discipline, the release of defective products, as well as on the formation of a careful attitude towards state property. Ultimately, those measures had to contribute to an increase in the revenue part of the state budget. In general, these measures contributed to strengthening textile production in Ivanovo Region, the implementation of planned tasks. However, its further development was restrained by a complex of various problems and, above all, by disadvantage of that time's equipment, the manufacture of which was still mastered by engineering plants of the country. In the conditions of an impending military threat, the presence of the said problems had become increasingly more clear.