Aleksei Gastev

Russian trade unionist (1882-1939) · Russia · On the map · Writers · Died at 56

Aleksei Kapitonovich Gastev was a Russian revolutionary, a pioneering theorist of the scientific management of labour in Soviet Russia, a trade-union activist, and an avant-garde writer and poet. His idea on labor management is one of the prototypes that Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin's novel We satirizes.

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