was the nep working for the urban workers?

nep employment

• increased esp state controlled trusts, leads to cut work-force to make profit

• wages remain low + little protection in the market place

• object to single managers and bourgeoisie specialists

• new exploitation of the proletariat

• 1928 real wages just pass pre-war level

• 1926 unemployment > 14% of the population

nep social benefits

• 8h working day

nep social disadvantages

• complained about the wealth gap

• high food prices by peasants and market traders

• women pushed out of jobs when red army demobilised - moved from skilled to unskilled work

• jobless unsupported homeless women

nep living conditions

• overcrowded, poor-quality houses + flats

• 1929 smolensk families of 6/7 people

• war + civil war = parentless amd rootless young people