This paper examines the shifts in labor between the primary, secondary, and tertiary sectors (extractive industries, manufacturing and construction, and services and related activities, respectively) accompanying economic change in the former USSR and their relationship to patterns of urbanization. A major focus of the study is the comparison of the Soviet experience with trends seen in Western and Third World countries and the explanation of this regional variation. Emerging economic and political trends likely to influence labor force structure and urbanization in 1993 and thereafter are identified and discussed. 2 graphs, 2 tables, 50 references.
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