Re-Constructing the Post-Soviet Industrial Region - The Donbas in Transition

Informationen zum Autor Adam Swain is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Nottingham, UK. He has been researching regional development, industrial restructuring and labour relations in Hungary, East Germany and Ukraine since the early 1990s. He is co-editor of a special issue of Regional Studies (1998) about globalization and eastern and central Europe and co-editor of Work, Employment and Transition: Restructuring livelihoods in 'post-communist' Eastern Europe. Klappentext This book examines the political economy of attempts to restructure the Donbass, one of the Soviet Union's most important 'old economy' 'rustbelt' industrial regions. It shows how local interest groups have successfully frustrated the central government's and the World Bank's proposed market-oriented restructuring, and how a manufacturing-based regional economy is surviving, partially, with restructuring postponed. Zusammenfassung This book examines the political economy of attempts to restructure the Donbass, one of the Soviet Union's most important 'old economy' 'rustbelt' industrial regions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Reconstructing the Post-Soviet Industrial Region Adam Swain Part 1: The Donbas Regional Economy in Transition 1. The Ukrainian Donbas in ‘Transition’ Adam Swain and Vlad Mykhnenko 2. The Reform of Ukraine's Energy Complex and its Consequences for Donetsk Hans van Zon 3. Regional Politics in Ukraine’s Transition: The Donetsk Élite Elena Kovaleva 4. The Evolution of the Industrial Structure in Donetsk Region: Macro-, Microeconomic and Institutional Factors Alexander Lyakh 5. Trapped in Past Glory: Self-Identification and Self-Symbolisation in the Donbass Kerstin Zimmer Part 2: The Restructuring of the Coal Mining Industry in the Donbas 6. The Donetsk Clan and the Demise of the Coal Industry Oleg Bogatov 7. The Social Consequences of Coal Mine Restructuring Olena Popova 8. Projecting ‘Transition’ in the Ukrainian Donbas: Policy Transfer and the Restructuring of the Coal Industry Adam Swain ...

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• Authors: Adam Swain, Adam (University of Nottingham Swain, Adam Zon Swain
• Assisted by: Adam Swain (Editor), Adam (University of Nottingham Swain (Editor), Swain Adam (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.03.2007
• EAN: 9780415322287
• ISBN: 978-0-415-32228-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Rus; BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies; BASEES/Routledge Series on Rus
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; Ukraine, UdSSR, Sowjetunion, Entwicklungsökonomie und Schwellenländer, Fertigungsindustrie, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Manufacturing, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Development economics & emerging economies, Manufacturing industries, Development economics and emerging economies