Slavic Countries
| Date | 01 March 1951 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716251274001100 |
| Author | Malcolm W. Davis |
| Published date | 01 March 1951 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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which
has
always
lived
on
a
low
subsistence
level,
with
the
cessation
of
tribal
wars,
better
sanitation
and
medical
assistance,
is
increasing
as
are
the
tribal
herds
until
overcrowding
threatens
widespread
poverty.
For
some
years
industry’s
back
door
has
been
grudgingly
open
to
native
labor,
but
the
fiction
still
persists
that
the
African
is
capable
of
doing
only
those
factory
jobs
which
the
white
worker
finds
it
least
desir-
able
to
perform.
The
native
enjoys
no
minimum
wage
floor
as
does
the
white
man,
although
in
cases
he
approximates
the
wage.
He
belongs
to
no
union
to
champion
.
his
rights
although
he
benefits
by
the
agitation
of
such
organizations.
He
has
no
social
security
although
with
the
estab-
lishment
of
urban
residence
and
a
con-
tinuous
labor
record
this
is
available
to
him.
What
is
more
important,
he
prefers
to
live
in
his
native
kraal
and
to
work
only
for
the
short
periods
necessary
to
get
the
cash
to
augment
his
subsistence
on
the
tribal
lands.
For
the
purpose
of
finding
out
the
reasons
for
this
situation
from
the stand-
point
of
industrial
management,
as
well
as
from
that
of
the
native,
the
Commission
selected
the
Dunlop
Tire
Factory
in
Dur-
ban
for
intensive
study.
This
factory
employs
1,120
Africans
and
330
Europeans.
All
aspects
of
the
native
worker’s
life
from
his
personal
attitudes
and
aptitudes
to
his
housing,
family
life,
and
diet
came
in
for
detailed
statistical
study-in
some
cases
so
detailed
as
to
obscure
the
broader
purposes
of
the
study.
While
the
information
about
the
factory
is
less
complete
than
could
be
desired,
particularly
in
its
financial
and
organizational
aspects,
a
fairly
adequate
picture
is
given
of
managerial
policy,
condi-
tions
and
facilities
under
which
the
in-
dustrial
process
is
carried
on.
The
study
fills
a
gap
in
the
South
African
race
relations
picture.
It
evidences
grow-
ing
awareness
by
white
South
Africa
of
the
urgent
need
of
making
the
native
a
more
integral
part
of
the
industrial
pattern
of
the
Union
and
incidentally
contributes
to
the
solution
of
a
race
problem
as
poignant
as
found
anywhere
else
in
the
world.
CHARLES
W.
COULTER
University
of
New
Hampshire
SLAVIC
COUNTRIES
MOORE,
BARRINGTON,
JR.
Soviet
Politics
—
The
Dilemma
of
Power.
Pp.
xviii,
503.
Cambridge,
Mass.:
Harvard
University
Press,
1950.
$6.00.
This
calm
and
clear
description
of
the
development
and
direction
given
to
ideas
under
the
necessities
of
operating
political
power
in
Soviet
Russia
is
an
admirable
contribution
to
understanding
of
the
cur-
rent
crisis.
Its
very
dispassionateness
may
keep
it
from
being
read
as
widely
as
other
volumes
in
these
times
on
the
same
sub-
ject-and
this
would
be
regrettable,
for
it
does
more
than
all
the
polemics
and
diatribes
to
throw
light
on
the
genuine
issues
between
the
Soviet
republics,
to-
gether
with
the
nations
related
to
them,
and
the
free
countries.
The
analysis
of
the
problem
is
so
firmly
and
broadly
based
on
documentation
as
to
satisfy
the
special
student,
while
the
argument
is
put
in
such
terms
as
to
make
it
interesting
and
avail-
able
to
general
readers
who
really
want
to
know
more
than
catchwords
about
the
Soviet
Union.
With
the
cumulative
force
of
an
impartial
laboratory
report
on
a
series
of
tests,
it
shows
the
ways
in
which
the
political
power
system
evolved
inn
practice
during
the
period
of
Lenin,
and
then
dur-
ing
the
period
of
Stalin
followed
lines
con-
trary
to
the
ideas
of
Marx
whose
theory
and
principles
of
economic
determinism
constituted
its
base.
An
attempt
to
explain
fully
why
this
happened
as
it.did
would
have
called
for
an
inquiry
into
the
effects
of
the
Rusian
past
upon
the
Soviet
present,
into
influences
running
from
the
times
of
the
czars
and
stemming
more
remotely
from
the
centuries
of
the
Mongol
invasion
and
administration
on
a
people
and
a
party
and
its
leaders
who
had
never
known
either
liberty
or
the
methods
of
organization
in
a
representative
society.
There
perhaps
could
be
found,
among
other
things,
for
example,
in
the
czarist
police-the
Okhrana-some
of
the
origins
of
the
Soviet
police
domination
of
a
country,
or
in
earlier
communal
assem-
blies
where
decisions
were
reached
by
unanimity-at
times
through
violence-
some
of
the
sources
of
Soviet
techniques.
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