Wages and living standards

Wages and living standards By Alice Wong, Jennifer Lee, Janice Kwong, Jane Moon

First five year plan • No improvements – poor planning. • Food rationing – lack of food. • 1928-1933: Meat, milk, fruit consumption declined by 2/3 in Leningrad and Moscow. • Problem: More and more people. • Ate in factory canteens; limited choice and poor quality.

First five year plan • Over-crowding: all materials were used for factories • Shortage of water • Remote areas did not have pavements, roads, sanitary needs

First five year plan • Wages not paid on time- increasing case • Poor conditions in the Barracks: • Over-crowding • No sanitary work • No eating halls, kitchens on construction sites • Poorly built; water would drip from ceiling onto the workers’ beds.

Second five year plan • Wages not paid on time- increasing case • Shops still lacked basic commodities • Long queues to buy things • Some industrial enterprises set up their own shops bringing in food from farms: • Peasants supplied food from their own private plots • Actually made a profit; better off during that period

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Wages and living standards