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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Offers a detailed account of the ways in which political and economic reforms have fragmented and weakened labor unions in Poland, Russia, Hungary, and Ukraine. - Thomas Remington, Emory University; ""Kubicek's main argument - that unions in postcommunist societies are weak, and that this weakness is increasing rather than decreasing over time - is well supported by a variety of empirical evidence. His novel contribution is to connect a discussion of postcommunist labor to an examination of globalization's impact on labor, a combination that points to the continued decline of unions in the postcommunist world."" - Stephen Crowley, Oberlin College; ""Explains definitively the weakness of organized labor in postcommunist countries, identifying as causes a complex mix of history, politics, and the pressures of globalization."" - Linda Cook, Brown University
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Höhe: 236 mm
Breite: 160 mm
Dicke: 16 mm
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978-0-8229-5856-7 (9780822958567)
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Paul J. Kubicek, associate professor of political science at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, is the author of Unbroken Ties: The State, Interest Associations, and Corporatism in Post-Soviet Ukraine.
