Socialist seff-management in work-collectives of the Soviet state insurance companies

Abstract

In my opinion brigade, even a large one, is only a basic cell of all organizational system. Its independence in process of socialist, self-management organization should not be exaggerated. The' complicity of the situation in insurance business is linked to the fact that any type of brigade deals only with one side of the work — collection of the insurance fees. They are completely separated from payment of premiums. That means that they don't participate in the final results of insurance services and are not responsible for them. To make process of democratization in enterprise really collective - - it must integrate the interests of all levels: shop-floor, middle and top. By top-level I mean here those workers of inspections, who deal with insurance premiums. Their duties are directly dependent on the activities of insurance agents and their brigades, although they don't participate in financial affairs of the brigade and its self-management.