Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. General Frameworks for the Restructuring -- Labour Relations in Transition in the East and the West -- Social Spaces and Acting Society -- Patterns of Work Identity in the Firm and Plant: An East-West Comparision -- Payment by Results in Transition: Capitalist and Socialist Restructuring -- Technical Progress and Decentralization of Socialist Economies -- Capitalism, Socialism, and Business Organizations -- II. Self-Management: From the Idea to Reality? -- Incompatible: Bulgaria - From Managed Self-Management to Managerial Management -- Radical Economic Reform and Democratization Process: a new Challenge for the Sociology of Work -- The Role of Self-Management in Polish Enterprises -- III. New Forms of Management and Labour -- Hungary's Changing Labour Relations System -- A Small Factory Working on a Lease Basis in the USSR -- Collective Forms of Work Organisation in Czechoslovak Economic Pratice -- Intraorganizational Determinants of Worker's Self-Management Activity -- IV. The Change of Trade Union Structures -- Business Democracy: Work Collective Councils and Trade Unions -- Current Reform Trends in Yugoslavia - A Challenge for Trade Unions -- On the Road to Autonomy: The Case of the Hungarian Unions -- Participation and Technological Alternatives in the German Democratic Republic: The Dilemma of Scientific Prediction and Co-Management by Trade Unions in the Past and Present -- V. Legal und Political Restructuring -- Toward a Social Market in Communist Nations -- Labour Legislation in a Socialist Country - Bulgaria a Case Study -- Industrial Democracy and Power Structuration in the Polish Economy -- Transition to Free Market Economy and Romania in the Year 2000. A Manpower Prospective Approach -- Effects of Workers' Profit Sharing Revisited: Some Methodological and Substantive Reflections -- Perspectives of Self-Government and De-Alienation in Business in the USSR -- VI. Instead of a Conclusion -- Dismantling the State and Creating Civil Society -- On the Authors -- Name Index -- Subject Index -- Backmatter
