Russian Trade Unions And Industrial Relations In Transition

Many commentators expected the Russian trade unions to collapse along with the system of which they were an integral part, but the trade unions survived the storms of the Yeltsin era by adopting a strategy of 'social partnership'. This book, based on case-study and survey research in eight Russian regions, provides a detailed account of the development of trade unionism in Russia since the collapse of the soviet system. Against the background of the role of the trade unions in the soviet system, the book reviews the political role, structure and functions of the trade unions, development of social partnership at federal and regional levels, and provides a detailed account of the activity of the trade unions at the level of enterprise. The book concludes with a critical assessment of the Russian unions' strategy of 'social partnership' and locates it in comparative perspective.

Labour Relations in Transitionprovides a unique insight into the realities of Russian industrial enterprises in the transition period as it affects workers on the shop floor. Based on a unique collaborative programme of ethnographic and case study research, this volume includes original work by Western and Russian scholars focusing on the restructuring of wages, employment and industrial relations, and how workers have responded to these changes. As well as presenting pioneering analysis of trade unions and industrial conflict, Labour Relations in Transitionaddresses changing status hierarchies within the workforce, the position of women in production, the process of bankruptcy, and insider and outsider control. This is the third volume in the series Management and Industry in Russiaand will be welcomed by sociologists and Russian specialists for addressing contemporary Labour-Management relations within the context of the changing significance of work and work relations in the lives of Russian workers.

This book explores the transformation of employment relations, the rise of worker protest and the reform of trade union practice to ask how successfully the state-socialist trade unions have adapted to their new role of representing the rights and interests of workers.

Mostly Russian contributors offer nine studies on new kinds of conflict and forms of trade unionism in post-Soviet Russia. The topics include the development of an independent trade union in a large ball-bearing factory, changes in the status hierarchy, gender differentiation, and the external relations of enterprises during bankruptcy and between insiders and outsiders. The series examines the restructuring of social relations in Russian industry. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Questioning the common belief that Russia is in transition to capitalism, this book looks behind the political and ideological debates to focus on the development of the real lives of the workers. It includes an analysis of the role of trade unions in the former Soviet system.

Linda Cook addresses the problems of labor in the new Russia in this fourth book in the Twentieth Century Fund's 'Russia in Transition' series.

An examination of production relations in Russian industry during the transition process. Using case studies, the focus is on the gap between formal and informal relations in the work place, a key feature of traditional Soviet industrial production.