
Worker Protests in Post-Communist Romania and Ukraine
Striking with Tied Hands
Mihai Varga(Author)
Manchester University Press
Published on 31. July 2014
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-7190-9112-4 (ISBN)
Description
Worker protests in post-communist Romania and Ukraine is a book about strategies of trade unions confronting employers in difficult conditions. The book's main idea is to study why and how successful forms of workers' interest representation could emerge in a hostile context. The post-communist context makes it difficult for workers and trade unions to mobilise, pose threats to employers, and break out of their political isolation, but even under such harsh conditions strategy matters for defending workers' rights and living standards. The cases studied in this book are 18 conflict episodes at 10 privatised plants in the Romanian steel industry and Ukraine's civil machine-building sector in the 2000s.
This book should be relevant for anyone taking interest in how and to what extent workers can reassert their influence over the conditions of production in regions and economic sectors characterised by disinvestment (of which outsourcing and 'lean' methods of production are instances). -- .
This book should be relevant for anyone taking interest in how and to what extent workers can reassert their influence over the conditions of production in regions and economic sectors characterised by disinvestment (of which outsourcing and 'lean' methods of production are instances). -- .
Reviews / Votes
'Varga's book is first and foremost a package of case studies and is excellent in presenting and comparing these cases.'Teppo Eskelinen, Department of social sciences and philosophy, University of Jyvaeskylae -- .
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Tables, black & white|Illustrations, black & white|Line drawings, black & white
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
531 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-9112-4 (9780719091124)
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Person
Mihai Varga is Senior Researcher at the Eastern Europe Institute, Freie Universitaet Berlin -- .
Content
1. Theorising transformation from a Labour perspective
2. Labour in Romania and Ukraine. Two approaches to managing worker discontent
3. A theory of Labour strategy
4. Struggles at the Plant
5. Struggles for the Plant
6. Contention in and for the Plant. Emergence and outcomes
7. The difficult road to strategy
Conclusions
Select bibliography
Appendix of interview respondents
Index -- .
2. Labour in Romania and Ukraine. Two approaches to managing worker discontent
3. A theory of Labour strategy
4. Struggles at the Plant
5. Struggles for the Plant
6. Contention in and for the Plant. Emergence and outcomes
7. The difficult road to strategy
Conclusions
Select bibliography
Appendix of interview respondents
Index -- .