Today's intense workplace culture can be traced back to a forgotten Soviet coal miner – podcast
- Written by Bogdan Costea, Professor of Management and Society, Lancaster University
This episode of The Conversation’s In Depth Out Loud podcast features the story of a young Soviet miner named Alexei Stakhanov, and how the work ethic he embodied in the 1930s has been invoked by managers in the west ever since.
You can read the text version of this in-depth article here. The audio version is read by Les Smith in partnership...