Well it would depend on your class in this classless society

Serf- Legally tied to a collective farm, food restriction if quotas aren't met. Later lightened to be allowed out with nothing in return for your grand fathers land being stolen by the state

Lower class- No say in mandatory state unions designed to manage you so you don't slack off. Lower pay, low listing on lists for luxury items or any product with a waiting period

Middle class- Little management so you can just pretend to do work all day and pretend to believe in communism, still no bargaining power

Prominent CP member- You and your children get full rights at cozy universities and after wards employment pushing papers

>>1199422
>>1199422
>How did working conditions in the USSR compare to those in the US?

Faster promotion. Lower volume of material goods. Higher job security. Better rentals.

>Did Russian workers have more rights and bargaining power?

Yes, but they degraded significantly after 1941. From the 1950s a widespread go slow was put in place.

>How did labor even work in the Soviet Union?

You got a job for a wage in exchange for your labour and the factory/trust/bank extracted surplus value from you. Unemployment/sickness/age benefits were supplied through factories.

>How socialist was it?

Not at all.

(Pirani, Strauss, Andrle, Fitzpatrick)

>>1199440
Another anon here, but i'll add to this

Another thing to consider is the unofficial side of things. Black market was a thing and it was huge and ever-present. If you had access to some goods - whether produce grown by yourself, stolen from the state or acquired through contacts and by utilising bribes - then selling them might have earned you enough to make life livable. This is also how some lowtier occupations enjoys a rather prestigious position in Soviet society - doormen, barmen, taxidrivers had contacts and had small, ev3ryday bribes coming at them. Farmers - really small scale, like growing stuff in their gardens - had actual vegies to eat and sell since the stores were mostly empty, storage workers could steal stuff from the state. Skilled craftsmen and worked sold their services besides their mandatory state job. Coaches would 'smuggle' stuff from the big cities to the provinces. Etc.

Official bargaining power was non-existant - labour unions were state institutions - but blackmarket was accepted and taken for granted which could increase your 'power' unofficially. Of course a door would never make to the cadre.

typical Russian job was coming around late only to sit with your pals and chill over a cup of tea (if it's early) or a glass of vodka (if it's in the afternoon) until the foreman/manager/boss comes to insult you for laziness

then you try to outwit him in the terms of communist theory in hope that some secret police komissar is listening

in the end of the day, you haven't really produced anything substantial, but the board will correct the statistics anyway because hurr my udarniki)))

>>1199534

Funny how the free market really can't be suppressed, even in a totalitarian nightmare state like the USSR

>as long as the state pretends to pay us, we'll pretend to work

>>1199550
almost like it worked out of necessity or something

>>1199550
Sale of items produced by the individual was never suppressed. It is almost like the Soviet Union had a full finance capital economy leveraged through banks and multiple competing trusts.

Yeah nah, that would mean that you'd actually read something.