ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the potential supply of labour and considers other topics of interest such as the use of penal labour in logging, the use of women in the forest industries, elements of Soviet labour law and the incidence of industrial injury in logging. Many women work in forestry in the Soviet Union, many delimbing trees with axes, others work at lower landings. The shift of the emphasis of logging into more remote areas has meant the establishment of logging camps and towns has become necessary. Forestry has to compete for its labour force in the pool of the working age population in industry - apart from some temporary workers that are drawn from the agricultural sector. During the late 1920s and 1930s governmental pressure was exerted on managerial bodies of the collective farms to fulfil voluntary contracts to supply labour to industry and one of the industries which it was hoped would benefit from the policy was logging.
