'How a Soviet miner from the 1930s helped create today’s intense corporate workplace culture'

Young Soviet miner, Alexei Stakhanov, pictured with a drill in his hand © creative commons
Young Soviet miner, Alexei Stakhanov, pictured right, explaining his system to a fellow miner in the USSR

In this long-read for The Conversation, Professor Bogdan Costea (Organisation, Work and Technology) and Dr Peter Watt (Leipzig) explain how 1930s Soviet miner, Alexei Stakhanov, helped create today's intense workplace culture.

You can read the article in full here.

You can also listen to an audio narration of the article on The Conversation's In Depth Out Loud podcast, here.

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