Organized Labor in Postcommunist States: From Solidarity to Infirmity

Paul Kubicek offers a comparative study of organized labor's fate in four postcommunist countries, and examines the political and economic consequences of labor's weakness. He notes that with few exceptions, trade unions have lost members and suffered from low public confidence. Unions have failed to act while changing economic policies have resulted in declining living standards and unemployment for their membership.
While some of labor's problems can be traced to legacies of the communist period, Kubicek draws upon the experience of unions in the West to argue that privatization and nascent globalization are creating new economic structures and a political playing field hostile to organized labor. He concludes that labor is likely to remain a marginalized economic and political force for the foreseeable.

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Zusammenfassung

Examination of why the power and role of workers' unions have greatly diminished in the former Soviet Union and Eastern European countries since the fall of Communism. Generally surprising turn of events, since organized labor played a large role in regime change.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Paul Kubicek, Paul J. Kubicek
• Verlag: Univ Of Pittsburgh Pr
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.12.2004
• EAN: 9780822958567
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-5856-7
• Seiten: 256
• Abmessung: 160 mm x 236 mm x 16 mm
• Gewicht: 376 g
• Serien: Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies; Pitt Series in Russian and Eas; Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies; Russian and East European Stud; Pitt Series in Russian and Eas; Russian and East European Studies
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Wirtschaft > Betriebswirtschaft