Soviet Workers and the Collapse of Perestroika - The Soviet Labour Process and Gorbachev''s Reforms, 1985-1991

Klappentext Soviet workers and the collapse of perestroika is a comprehensive analysis of the role of labour policy in the development and ultimate collapse of Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms. Zusammenfassung A comprehensive analysis of the role of labour policy in the development and ultimate collapse of Gorbachev's reforms. Filtzer argues that initially perestroika was designed to modernize the Soviet economy while keeping the existing political and property relations of society intact! requiring a thorough restructuring of the labour process within Soviet industry. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: the roots and limits of perestroika; 1. Attempts to create a labour market: employment, unemployment, and the labour shortage; 2. Economic incentives: the disintegration of the 1986 wage reform; 3. Political incentives: enterprise 'democratization' and the emergence of worker protests; 4. 'Market mechanisms' and the breakdown of economic regulation; 5. The labour process under perestroika I: the politcal economy of working conditions; 6. The labour process under perestroika II: the failure of restructuring; Conclusion: the demise of perestroika and the emergence of class conflict.

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• Authors: Donald Filtzer, Donald (University of East London) Filtzer, Donald A. Filtzer
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2008
• EAN: 9780521056533
• ISBN: 978-0-521-05653-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Cambridge Russian, Soviet and
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education