POPULATION MOVEMENT AND LABOR SUPPLY IN SIBERIA [Part V].

The article reports on population movement and labor supply in Siberia. The question of the nature of population movement under socialism and of its laws has hardly been studied in the USSR in recent times. Major works on this subject appeared toward the end of the 1920s. There can be no doubt that population movement in socialist society differs fundamentally from that under the conditions of all previous socioeconomic systems. Whereas under capitalism the population spontaneously follows the spontaneous flow of capital from one field to another and from area to area, capital investment under socialism is a planned process. Under today's conditions, population movement is a combination of both socially organized migration called forth by public needs and individual migration resulting from the needs of the migrants themselves. Socially organized population movement, directly associated with the utilization of labor resources, is produced by society's efforts to bring the distribution of the labor supply into accord with the need for labor power. A system of organizational, economic, and other measures carried out by government agencies and civic organizations constitutes the means of achieving socially organized territorial redistribution of labor resources.